POST-COLONIAL THEORY
(NON-WESTERN THOUGHT)

Non-Western thought / Post-colonial theory is frequently classified in relation to cultural origin (e.g. Africa, Asia, Caribbean, and the like).  For further information on this, please go to Regions.  Here, however, I have attempted to offer an alternative framework that classifies Non-Western / Post-colonial theorists in relation to contemporary schools of thought.

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History of Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on the History of Thought:

• Ancient (Classical) Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Ancient (Classical) Thought

• Medieval Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Medieval Thought

• Renaissance Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Renaissance Thought

• Early Modern Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Early Modern Thought

• Nineteenth Century Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on 'Victorian' Thought

• Twentieth Century Approaches:

  • Analytic Post-colonial Philosophy

  • Continental Post-colonial Theory

  • Modernist and New Critical Post-colonial Literary Theory

Post-colonial Thought by Region:

• African and African Diasporic Thought:

  • African and African Diasporic Literature and Literary Theory

• Asian Thought:

  • East Asian Thought:

    • East Asian Literature and Literary Theory

  • South Asian Thought:

    • South Asian Literature and Literary Theory

• Australasian Thought:

  • Australasian Literature and Literary Theory

• Canadian Thought:

  • Canadian Literature and Literary Theory

• Caribbean Thought:

  • Caribbean Literature and Literary Theory

• Latin American Thought:

  • Latin American Literature and Literary Theory

• Middle Eastern Thought:

  • Arabic / Islamic Thought:

    • Arabic / Islamic Literature and Literary Theory

  • Israeli / Jewish Thought:

    • Israeli / Jewish Literature and Literary Theory

Topics in Post-colonial Thought:

• Arts:

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Art

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Film

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Literature:

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on the Audience

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on the Author

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on Literary Form and Genre

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on Literary Historicism, Literary History, Tradition, Intertextuality and Canonicity

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on Metaliterature

    • Post-colonial Perspectives on Literary Representation (Realism)

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Music

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Popular Culture

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Being

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Communication

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Education

• Post-colonial Perspectives on History

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Human Nature:
  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Sexuality (Post-colonial Queer Theory)

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Knowledge

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Metaphilosophy / Metatheory

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Morality

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Religion

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Nature, the Natural Sciences and Technology

• Postcolonial Perspectives on Society and Government

Related Pages:

• African American Thought:

  • African American Literary Theory

• Native American Thought
• Race

Feminist:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Gender / Feminist Perspectives on Post-coloniality

ASSOCIATIONS

• Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI)

CONFERENCES

2008:

• Empire and Identity, The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), Georgetown University, Feb. 22-23

2007:

• Postcolonial Ghosts, Cerpac (Research Centre for Commonwealth Studies), Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III), November 8-10

• Expressions of Traditional Wisdom, International Symposium, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Brussels (Belgium), September 27-28

• Europe and its Others: Interperceptions Past, Present and Future,  Institute for European Cultural Identity Studies, University of St. Andrews, July 6-8

• Rerouting the Postcolonial, Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narration, English Department, University of Northampton, July 3-4

• De/Constructions of Occidentalism: a Gender-Critical Intervention in the Construction of the Self through the Other, Gender as a Category of Knowledge (Graduate Research Group ), Humboldt-University, June 21-23

• Empires and their Contested Pasts, 28th Irish Conference of Historians, Queen's University Belfast, May 18-20

• Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters: an International  Conference on British Narratives of Exploration, Ecole Normale Superieure  Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France, March 22-23

2006:

• Empire and Aftermath: the Cases of India, Greece and Ireland, Symposium, Durrell School of Corfu, June 4-10

• Disunited Empires: British and / or American Imperialism in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Middle East from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Queen's University, May 15-18

2005:

• Cultural Borders and Bridges: Europe and Asia, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, November 3-4

• Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, October 27-29

• Self and Subject: African and Asian Perspectives: the Study of African and Asian Cultures in the 21st Century, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK (held in Edinburgh, Scotland [UK]), September 20-23

• Present Tense: Empires, Race, Bio-Politics, Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, August 15-26

• The Postcolonial State: Decolonization and After, Interventions International Conference 2005, Nottingham Trent University, May 26-27

2004:

• Philosophy against Empire, Sixth Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, Howard University, November 4-7

• Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, September 17-18

• New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition, Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies, University of Munich, July 22-24

• Europe and the Islamic World: Cultural Transformations, 1453-1798, Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, July 14-16

• Colonialism and its Aftermath: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, June 23-25

2003:

• Burden, Benefit, Trace?  The Legacies of Benevolence, Postcolonial Research Group, School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of Queensland, December 11-14,

• 21st Annual Conference, Association of Third World Studies, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, November 6-8

• The Politics of Postcoloniality: Contexts and Conflicts, Department of English, McMaster University, October 24

• Place, Memory, Identities: Australia, Spain and the New World, La Trobe University, July 9-12

• Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilisations, Centre for Civilisational and Regional Studies and Institute for African Studies, Moscow, June / July

• Migrations, Borders and Diasporas in the Americas, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, June 26-28

• Cities, Inequality and Subjectivity in the Americas, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Guadalajara, Mexico, May 14-16

• Rereading the Black Legend: Discourses of Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, Duke University, April 18-20

2002:

• Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 25-28

2001:

• PostColonialisms and Political Correctnesses, Postgraduate School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, Casablanca, April 12-14

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of Birmingham: Postcolonialism (Bungaro)

• Boston College:

  • Debates and Issues in Postcolonial Studies (Sheshadri-Crooks)
  • Gender, Race, Class, and Colonialism (Sheshadri-Crooks)
  • The Postcolonial Method: a Critique of the Discourses of Modernity (Sheshadri-Crooks)
• University of Calgary: History of British Imperialism (Peers)
• Earlham University: Postcolonial Theory [2004] (Guven)
• University of Essex: Foundations of Postcolonial Studies (White)
• New York University: Concepts in Post-colonial Theory: Modernity (Rajan)
• State University of New York, Buffalo: Theories of Resistance (Mardorossian)

JOURNALS

• Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical perspectives on Europe, Africa and the Americas

• Imperium: an International Journal of Media and Postcolonial Studies

• Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

• Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies

• Journal of Cultural Studies

• Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies

• Mots Pluriel

• Postcolonial Forum

• Postcolonial Studies

• Postcolonial Text

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)

• Walker Connor (1926 - )

• Michael Banton ( - )

• David Theo Goldberg ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Ashgate: World Philosophies.  Ed. David Cooper, et al.

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Colonial Discourse:
  • Post-colonial Theory:
    • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds.  The Post-colonial Studies Reader.  London: Routledge, 1995.
    • Brydon, Diana, ed.  Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies.  5 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2000.
    • Castle, Gregory.  Postcolonial Discourses: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
    • Desai, Gaurav, and Supriya Nair, eds.  Postcolonialisms: an Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism.  Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2005.
    • JanMohamed, Abdul, and David Lloyd, eds.  The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse.  Oxford: OUP, 1990. 
    • Mongia, Padmini, ed.  Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: a Reader.  London: Edwin Arnold, 1996.
    • Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, eds.  Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1994.
    • Yancy, George, ed.  Philosophy in Multiple Voices.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Colonial Discourse:
    • Macaulay, Thomas.  "Minute on Indian Education."
  • Post-colonial Theory:
    • Appiah, Kwame Anthony.  "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?"  Critical Inquiry 17 (1991): 336-357. Rpt. as "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern."  In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture.  Oxford: OUP, 1992.  137-157.
    • Dirlik, Arif.  The Postcolonial Aura.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997.
    • Dirlik, Arif.  "The Post-colonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism."  Critical Inquiry 20 (1994): 329-356.
    • During, Simon.  "Postcolonialism and Globalisation: a Dialectical Relation After All?"  Postcolonial Studies 1.1. (1998): 31-47.
    • During, Simon.  "Postmodernism or Postcolonialism Today?" Landfall 39 (1985): .  Rpt. in Textual Practice 1.1. (1987): .  Rpt. in Postmodernism: a Reader.  Ed. Thomas Docherty.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.  448-462.
    • Hechter, Michael.  Internal Colonialism: the Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
    • Hitchcock, Peter.  Dialogics of the Oppressed.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, .
    • Hutcheon, Linda.  "The Post Always Rings Twice: the Postmodern and the Postcolonial."  Textual Practice 8 (1994): 205-238.
    • Hutcheon, Linda.  "Circling the Downspout of Empire: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism."  Ariel 20 (1989): 149-75.
    • Kanth, R. K.  Against Eurocentrism: a Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
    • Lloyd, David.  "Ethnic Cultures, Minority Discourse and the State."  Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory.  Ed. Francis Barker, et al.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  221-238.
    • Lloyd, David.  Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment.  Dublin: Lilliput, 1993.
    • Lloyd, David.  "Race Under Representation."  Oxford Literary Review 13 (1991): 62-94.
    • Loomba, Ania.  "Overworldling the ‘Third World.’"  Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory.  Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.  New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.  305-323.
    • Memmi, Albert.  The Colonizer and the Colonized.  1965.
    • Moore-Gilbert, Bart.  "Postcolonialism: Between Nationalitarianism and Globalisation?  A Response to Simon During."  Postcolonial Studies 1.1 (1998): 49-65.
    • Pechey, Graham.  "Bakhtin and the Postcolonial Condition."  Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin.  Ed. Caryl Emerson.  New York: G . K. Hall, 19.  347-354.Yegenoglu, Meyda.  Colonial Fantasies.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
    • Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins, eds.  World Philosophy: a Text With Readings.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
    • Venn, Couze.  Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity.  London: Sage, 2000.
    • Venn, Couze.  "History Lessons: Formations of Subjects, (Post)colonialism, and an Other Project."  The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History.  Ed. Bill Schwarz.  London: Routledge, 1996.  32-60.

On-Line:

• Buruma, Ian: The Origins of Occidentalism

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds.  The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies.  Durham: Duke UP, 2000.  

  • Barker, Francis, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen, eds.  Colonial Discourse / Post-colonial Theory.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.
  • Barker, Francis, et al., eds.  Europe and its Others.  2 Vols.  Colchester: U of Essex, 1985.
  • Benjamin, Thomas, ed.  Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450.  Gale, forthcoming.
  • Buell, Lawrence, Rhonda Cobham Sander, Juan Flores, and Mae G. Henderson, eds.  Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature.  Oxford: UP of Mississippi, 2000.
  • Deutsch, Eliot, ed.  An Introduction to World Philosophies.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
  • Goldberg, David Theo, and Ato Quayson, eds.  Relocating Postcolonialism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
  • Loomba, Ania, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton and Jed Esty, eds.  Postcolonial Studies and Beyond.  New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006.
  • Rajan, Gita, and Radhika Mohanram, eds.  Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism.  Greenwood, 1995.
  • Schwarz, Henry, and Sangeeta Ray, eds.  A Companion to Postcolonial Studies.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
  • Trivedi, Harish, and Meenakshi Mukherjee, eds.  Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context.  Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Amin, Samir.  Eurocentrism.  New York: Monthly Review, .

  • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.  Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies.  London: Routledge, 1998.

  • Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. 
  • Childs, Peter, and Patrick Williams.  An Introduction to Post-colonial Theory.  Hassocks: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997.
  • Cooper, David E.  World Philosophies: an Historical Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
  • Deutsch, Eliot, and Ronald Bontekoe, eds.  A Companion to World Philosophies.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
  • Eldridge, C.C. 
  • Featherstone, Simon.  Postcolonial Cultures.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005.
  • Gandhi, Leela.  Post-colonial Theory: a Critical Introduction.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.
  • Howe, Stephen.  Empire: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.
  • Hyam, Ronald. 
  • Loomba, Ania.  Colonialism / Postcolonialism.  London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Loomba, Ania.  "Overworldling the 'Third World.'"  Oxford Literary Review 13 (1991): .
    • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: a Reader.  Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.  305-323.
  • Lowe, Lisa.  Critical Terrains.  
  • MacKenzie, John.  Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.
  • Maxwell, Anne.  "The Debate on Current Theories of Colonial Discourse."  Kunapipi 13.3 (1991): 70-84.
  • McClintock, Anne.  "The Angels of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Post-colonial.'"  Social Text (1992): 1-15. 
    • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: a Reader.  Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.  291-304.
  • McLeod, John.  Beginning Postcolonialism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.
  • Mishra, Vijay, and Bob Hodge.  "What is Post(-)Colonialism?"  Textual Practice 5.3 (1991): 399-414.
    • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: a Reader.  Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.  276-290.
  • Miyoshi, Masao.  "A Borderless World?  From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State."  Critical Inquiry 19 (1993): 726-751.
  • Moore-Gilbert, Bart.  Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics.  London: Verso, 1997.
  • Osterhammel, Jurgen.  Colonialism: a Theoretical Overview.  Trans. Shelley L. Frisch.  Kingston: Ian Randle, 1997.
  • Pagden, Anthony. European Encounters with the New World: from Renaissance to Romanticism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.
  • Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturalism. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Rukundwa, Lazare S., and Andries G. van Aarde.  "The Formation of Postcolonial Theory." 
  • Scharfstein, Ben-Ami.  A Comparative History of World Philosophy: from the Upanishads to Kant.  Albany: SUNY Press, Albany, 1998.
  • Schwarz, Bill.  "Conquerors of Truth: Reflections on Postcolonial Theory."  The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History.  Ed. Bill Schwarz.  London: Routledge, 1996.  9-31.
  • Shohat, Ella.  "Notes on the 'Post-Colonial.'"  The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies.  Ed.  Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks.  Durham: Duke UP, 2000.  126-139.
  • Stam, Robert, and Ella Shohat.  "Contested Histories: Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism and the Media."  Multiculturalism: a Critical Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.  296-324.
  • Young, Robert J. C.  Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.
  • Young, Robert J. C.  Postcolonialism: a Historical Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

On-Line:

• Gugelberger, George M.: Postcolonial Cultural Studies (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Hearn, Jeff: Post-colonial Historiography, Subaltern Studies

• Kellner, Douglas: Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, and the Philosophy of Liberation

• Kohn, Margaret: Colonialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• La Fave, Sandy: Philosophy and Multiculturalism

• Photoinsight: Guide to Post-colonial Theory

• University of Virginia: Subaltern Studies: a Bibliography

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Post-colonialism

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australasia:

• Institute of Postcolonial Studies

• University of Queensland: Postcolonial Research Group

Europe:

• Belgium:

  • Université de Lièges: Diplôme d'études complémentaires de 2^e cycle en études du Commonwealth

• France:

  • Université de Montpellier III (Paul Valery): Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Pays du Commonwealth (CERPAC)

• Poland:

  • Warsaw University: Insititute of Oriental Studies

• UK:

  • University of Glasgow: MLitt in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

  • University of Kent: Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research: MA by Coursework

  • University of Leeds: Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

  • University of London:

    • Birbeck College: School of History, Classics and Archaeology: MA in Imperialism and Post-colonial Societies

    • Goldsmiths College: MA in Postcolonial Studies

    • Queen Mary College: MA in Metropolis and Empire

    • School of Advanced Studies: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

    • School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS)

  • Nottingham Trent University: Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

  • University of Stirling: Centre of Commonwealth Studies: MA / MLitt in Postcolonial Diasporas

USA:

• Emory University: Post-colonial Studies
• Michigan State University: PhD Emphasis in Postcolonial Studies
• University of New Mexico: PhD Reading List in Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• University of North Carolina: Post-colonial Theory Doctoral Exams Reading List

WWW GATEWAYS

• Nagoya University, Japan: Colonial - Postcolonial Websites

• Polylog Forum for Intercultural Philosophy

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