The postcolonial studies dictionary
By: Pramod K. Nayar
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781118781050; 9781118781043
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Literatures; Postcolonialism in literature; Dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Modern Literature
Description: "The Post colonial Studies Dictionary provides students with an essential resource for navigating the field of post colonial theory"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Lits of terms vi Acknowledgements ix Preface x Dictionary 1 References 170 Terms aboriginal 1 abrogation 2 Adivasi 3 Afro-Europe 4 agency 5 alterity 6 ambivalence 8 anthropology (colonial) 9 apartheid 11 appropriation 12 archive (colonial) 13 arithmetic (colonial) 14 assimilado 15 barbarian/barbaric 16 Black Atlantic 17 black consciousness 19 cannibal 21 captivity narratives 22 Carib 23 cartography 23 catachresis 25 citizenship (cultural) 26 citizenship (ecological) 27 census 27 centre and margin 28 chutneyfication 29 colony/colonialism 30 colonial discourse 32 Commonwealth Literature 34 comprador colonialism 35 conquistador 36 contrapuntal reading 36 cosmopolitanism 37 cosmopolitanism (vernacular) 38 Creole/creolization 39 cultural imperialism 41 Dalit 43 Dark Continent 44 decolonization 45 dependency complex 47 diaspora 48 discovery 51 dislocation/displacement 52 double consciousness 52 e-Empire 55 ecological ethnicity 55 ecological imperialism 57 education (colonial) 57 effeminacy 59 Empire; title: new figurations of 60 Enlightenment (European) 61 environmentalism 62 epidermalization 64 epistemic violence 65 eroticization 66 essentialism 67 ethnicity 69 ethnocide 70 ethnography (colonial) 70 ethnopsychiatry (colonial) 71 Eurocentrism 73 evangelicalism (colonial) 74 exile 75 exoticism 76 exploitation colony 77 exploration (colonial) 77 feminism (Islamic) 79 fetish/phobia 80 filiation/affiliation 80 First World 81 Fourth World 81 geographical morality 83 geography 83 globe 85 globalization 85 hegemony 87 homonationalism 88 humanism (European) 88 humanitarianism 90 hybridity 91 imaginative geography 93 imperialism 94 indentured labour 95 infantilization 95 kala pani ('Black Water') 97 lactification 98 liminality 98 lusotropicalism 99 magical realism 100 Manichean allegory 101 masculinity (imperial) 102 mestizo/a 102 mimicry 103 miscegenation 104 multiculturalism 106 national allegory 108 nationalism (as discourse) 109 native 112 Native Informant 112 nativism 113 Negritude 114 neocolonialism 115 New World 116 Occidentalism 117 orality 117 Orientalism 118 Ornamentalism 120 picturesque (as colonialimperial aesthetic) 121 postcolonialism 122 postcoloniality 124 postcolony 125 postnational 126 primitivism 126 provincializing 127 race 129 refugee 130 re-orientalism 131 representation (colonial) 132 Requerimiento 134 reverse colonization 134 secularism/post-secularism 136 settler colonialism 137 situated knowledge 138 slavery 139 stereotyping 140 strategic essentialism 141 subaltern 143 subjectivity (of Europeans, colonial period) 146 subjectivity (of natives, colonial period) 148 sublime (as colonial aesthetic) 149 syncretism 150 terra incognita 152 terra nullius 153 testimonio 154 text/textuality (colonial) 155 Third World 156 torrid zones 157 transculturation 158 transnationalism 160 tricontinentalism 161 tropicality 161 universalism 163 vernacular 165 whiteness/white studies 167 World Literature 168 worlding 169 .