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Post-colonial studies : the key concepts

"This best-selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language." "Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts is fully updated and cross-referenced throughout. With additional further reading this book has everything necessary for students and anyone keen to learn more about this fascinating subject."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2009
Routledge, London, 2009
Dictionary
xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm.
9780415428569, 9780415428552, 9780203449974, 0415428564, 0415428556, 0203449975
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Aboriginal/indigenous peoples
Abrogation
African-American and post-colonial studies
Agency
Allegory
Alterity
Ambivalence
Anti-colonialism
Apartheid
Appropriation
Authentic/authenticity
binarism
Black Atlantic
Black studies/black consciousness
Borderlands
Cannibal
Caribbean/West Indian
Cartography (maps and mapping)
Catachresis
Catalysis
Centre/margin (periphery)
Chromatism
Class and post-colonialism
Colonial desire
Colonial discourse
Colonial patronage
Colonialism
Commonwealth
Commonwealth literature
Comprador
Contact zone
Contrapuntal reading
Counter-discourse
Creole
Creolization
Cultural diversity/cultural difference
Cultural tourism
Decolonization
Dependency theory
Deracinate
Diaspora
Discourse
Dislocation
Double coloniazation
Ecological imperialism
Ecofeminism
Empire
Environmentalism
Essentialism/strategic essentialism
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Ethno-psychiatry/ethno-psychology
Euro-centrism
Exile
Exotic/exoticism
Exploration and travel
Fanonism
Feminism and post-colonialism
Filiation/affiliation
First nations
Frontier
Globalization
Glocalization
"Going native"
Hegemony
Hybridity
Imperialism
Indentured labour
Independence
Interpellation
Liminality
Magic realism
Manicheanism
Marginality
Mestizo/mestizaje/metisse
Metonymic gap
Metropolis/metropolitan
Mimicry
Miscegenation
Missions and colonialism
Modernism and post-colonialism
Modernity
Mulatto
Multitude
Nation language
Nation/nationalism
National allegory
National liberation movements
Native
Nativism
Negritude
Neo-colonialism/neo-imperialism
Neoliberalism
New literatures
Orality
Orientalism
Other
Othering
Palimpsest
Pidgins/creoles
Place
Post-colonial body
Post-colonialism/postcolonialist
Post-colonial reading
Post-colonial state
Postcolony
Primitivism
Race
Rastafarianism
Rhizome
Religion and the postcolonial
Savage/civilized
Settler
Settler colony
Slave/slavery
Speciesism
Subaltern
Subject/subjectivity
Surveillance
Syncretism
Synergy
Testimonio
Third World (First, Second, Fourth)
Transculturation
Transnational literatures
Translation
Universalism/universality
Washington Consensus
Whiteness
World system theory
Worlding
Previous ed. published under title: Key concepts in post-colonial studies
"Transferred to digital printing 2009"--Title page verso