Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, eds.
Acknowledgments ix
Beyond What? An Introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl,
Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty 1
Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse
Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe / Peter Hulme 41
On Globalization, Again! / Ali Behdad 62
The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return
to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan 80
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery / Timothy Brennan 101
Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World
The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony / Jean
Comaroff 125
A Flight from Freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 145
Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development / James
Ferguson 166
“The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into”: Quotidian Experience and
the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole 182
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural
Nationalism, and Feminist Politics / Nivedita Menon 206
Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism / Rob Nixon 233
Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African
Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman 252
Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in
Contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon 272
Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation / Robert
Stam and Ella Shohat 293
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the
Post/colonial Question / Rebecca L. Stein 317
Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation
Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity /
Daniel Boyarin 339
Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for
Postcolonial Theory / Tani E. Barlow 359
The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies / David Scott 385
Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History / Frederick Cooper 401
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism / Neil Lazarus
Bibliography 439
Contributors 479
Index 483
