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COLONIZATION

OR

GLOBALIZATION?

NAGY-ZEKMI

AND

ZABUS

P O S T C O L O N I A L S T U D I E S C U L T U R A L S T U D I E S

This is an excellent and timely intervention into the dialogue between postcolonialism and globaliza-

tion studies, emphasizing as it does the utility and adaptability of postcolonial concepts to a rapidly

changing world. This collection demonstrates with admirable clarity the ways in which the imperial

enterprise has developed globally and shows how valuable postcolonial analyses have become.

Bill Ashcroft, The Empire Writes Back,

Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature

Covering a wide range of textsfrom contemporary British detective fiction to HollywoodsKing

Solomons Minesthe chapters in this collection deploy a variety of postcolonial approaches to

examine and argue for a continuum between colonialism and globalization. This is a timely, refresh-

ing volume, and it will be of keen interest to scholars of contemporary literature and culture.Padmini Mongia, editor of

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

This book presents new scholarship on the subject of imperial expansion through colonization and

globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. The chapters in this volume, grouped in

three chapters, scrutinize imperial expansion within the context of national identities and imag-

eriesdeconstructing the modernist and utopian idea of a nation as a site of homogeneity, and

reviewing the importance of the concept in the different phases of colonization. Hence the first

chapter, entitled Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in Modernism. The postclassical phase

of colonialism is examined through the representation of the colonized and the once-colonized.

Applying postcolonial theories and often moving beyond them, scholars scrutinize such textual

and filmic representations as exemplified in Asia. These make up chapter 2, Interference of the

Imperial Tradition in Asia, which allows for the rearticulations of cultural heritage in the region

within the different and ever-renewed schemes of imperial expansion. Chapter 3, Reformulationsof the Imperial Project, seeks to explore the questions surrounding inclusion in, and exclusion

from, the realm of power as the founding principle of empire, suggesting that they are discursive and

deliberate. Postcolonial societies inherit the trauma of colonialism that subjected people to a cultural

displacement that is exacerbated by renewed efforts of imperial influence through globalization.

CONTRIBUTORS: Gilbert Adair, Fadwa Kathleen Flanagan, Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad, Geetha

Ganapathy-Dor, Sukanya Gupta, Will Harris, Deepa Jani, Aishwarya Lakshmi, Robert P. Marzec,

Gabrielle Naglieri, Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Vladimir Suchan, Hande Tekdemir, Paul Ugor, Chantal Zabus

SILVIA NAGY-ZEKMIis professor of Hispanic and cultural studies and director of the Center for Arab and

Islamic Studies at Villanova University. She authored Transatlantic Parallelisms: Postcoloniality

and Writings by Women in Latin America and North Africa ; History of Andean Folksons;

edited Paradoxical Citizenship; Orientalism in Latin Americaand coedited with Fernando Leiva

Democracy in Chile.

CHANTAL ZABUS is professor of comparative postcolonial literatures and gender studies at the

University Paris 13; a researcher with the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, as well as a

senior scholar at the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. She is the author of Between Rites

and Rights, The African Palimpsest, and Tempests after Shakespeare. She has also editedFearful

Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies on Excision and Circumcision; Changements au fminin en

Afrique noire; and with Jacques Derrida,Le Secret.

For orders and information please contact the publisherLEXINGTON BOOKSA division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200Lanham, Maryland 207061-800-462-6420 www.lexingtonbooks.com

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