The decolonization of imagination
Subtitle: culture, knowledge and power
By: edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh.
Contributors: Nederveen Pieterse, Jan.; Parekh, Bhikhu C.
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Decolonization -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Social change -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Developing countries -- Civilization -- Congresses.
Description: The Decolonization of Imagination paves the way for a truly global cultural politics. Acknowledging that both the West and the former colonized have been shaped by colonial imaginaries, the book explores a wide range of cultural decolonization strategies. A distinguished cast of contributors, from both North and South, looks at the relations between culture and power, domination and the imagination in a variety of contexts.

This important contribution to post-colonial theory will be essential reading for all students and academics in cultural studies, literary studies, political and social theory and development studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chiefly rev. papers originally presented at a conference held 1991 in Amsterdam.
Table of contents: title: Continuities in imagination / Marion O'Callaghan; title: "Dying races" : rationalizing genocide in the nineteenth century / Patrick Brantlinger; title: Ethnographic showcases, 1870-1930 / Raymond Corbey; title: Liberalism and colonialism : a critique of Locke and Mill / Bhikhu Parekh; title: Samurai and self-colonization in Japan / Hiroshi Yoshioka; title: Metaphors and the Middle East : crisis discourse on Gaza / Toine van Teeffelen; title: "Mixed bloods" and the cultural politics of European identity in colonial Southeast Asia / Ann Stoler; title: Patterns of exclusion : imaginaries of class, nation, ethnicity, and gender in Europe / Jan Berting; title: The century of the colour line : closing reflections on the United States / Ronald Takaki; title: Teaching for the times / Gayatri Spivak; title: The emerging metastate versus the politics of identity / Sol Yurick; title: The self wandering between cultural localization and globalization / Susantha Goonatilake.