Beschreibung:
Writing Postcolonial History addresses the relationship between postcolonial theory and history. It provides students with critical analyses of postcolonial histories from around the world. In addition, it discusses the benefits and shortcomings of this form of writing by situating postcolonial history amidst other modes of historical inquiry.
Includes examples from Latin America and Africa as well as Asia
Anticolonial Struggles and Postcolonial History / The Beginnings of Postcolonial History Writing: Edward Said and Subaltern Studies / The Nation-State, Nationalism, and History: Key Themes in Postcolonial History / Regions and Postcolonial Histories: Africa and Latin America / Postcolonial Gender Histories / Postcolonial Histories and Empire: A History from the Present