Postcolonial Theory Bibliography



Abu-Lughod, Lila.  Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1986.

Alloula, Malek. The Colonial Harem. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

Asad, Talal. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. New York: Humanities Press, 1973.

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.

________. (eds.) The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge: 1995.

________. (eds.) Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge: 1998.

Bhabha, Homi K. (ed.) Nation and Narration, New York: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1990.

________. "The Other Question - The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse". Screen 24:6, 1983, 18-36.

________. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Boelhower, William. Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature. New York: Oxford, 1987.

Bourdieu, Pierre: Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Brantlinger, Patrick. "History and Empire." Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture 1992 (19) 317-327.

Cesaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.

Chrisman, Laura. "The Imperial Unconscious? Representation of Imperial Discourse." Critical Quarterly 1990 (32/3/Aut) 38-58.

Derrida, Jacques. "Racism's Last Word," Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Critical Inquiry. Volume 12. Autumn 1985: 290-299.

________. Margins of Philosophy. Translated by A. Bass. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982.

________. Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri C. Spivak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

________. Writing and Difference. Translated by A. Bass. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi. (ed.)  Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1997.

Fabian, Johannes: Time and the Other: How Anthropology makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

________. Language and Colonial Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

________. "Presence and Representation: The Other and Anthropological Writing." Critical Inquiry 16 (1990).

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, New York: Grove Press, 1967.

________. Studies in a Dying Colonialism,  Translated by Haakon Chevaliar, New York: Grove Press, 1965.

________. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington, New York: Grove Press, 1963.

________. Toward the African Revolution. Translated by Haakon Chevaliar, New York: Grove Press, 1988.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

________. Language, Counter-memory, Practice. Edited by D. F. Bouchard. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.

________. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

________. Michel Foucault: Politics Philosophy Culture. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Routledge, 1988.

________. Power/Knowledge. Edited by Colin Gordon. Translated by Colin Gordon et. al. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

________. The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

________. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Edited by G. Burchell, C. Gordon, P. Miller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991

________. The Foucault Reader. Edited by P. Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

________. The History of Sexuality, Vol I, An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.

________. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1970.

________. The Use of Pleasure, The History of Sexuality, Vol II. Translated by R. Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.

________. The Care of the Self, The History of Sexuality, Vol III. Translated by R. Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.

________. "The Order of Discourse," Social Science Information 10: 2, (1970): 7-30.

Gandhi, Leela.  Postcolonial Theory : A Critical Introduction. New York Columbia University Press, 1998.

Gates, Henry Louis, editor. Race, Writing and Difference. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Hegel, G.W.F. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind: Part three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Translated by W. Wallace, Together with the Zusätze in Boumann's Text (1845). Translated by A. V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

________. Hegel's Science of Logic. Translated by A.V. Miller. Atlantic Highlands N.J.: Humanities Press, 1989.

________. Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A.V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings, Edited by David F. Krell. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Second edition 1993

________. Nietzsche, Vols. I-II. Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1961.

________. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. Translated by William Lovitt. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

________. Being and Time. Translated by Joan Stambaugh, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Hussain, A. Olson, R. Qureshi, J. (eds.) Orientalism, Islam, and Islamists.  Brattleboro: Amana Books, 1994.

Loomba, Ania.  Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge, 1998.

Malek, Anwar Abdel. "Orientalism in Crisis," Diogenes 44 Winter (1963).

Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and The Colonized. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context. London: Routledge, 1995.

Mitchell, Timothy. Colonising Egypt. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1991.

Mongia, Padmini. (ed.) Contemporary Postcolonial Theory : A Reader. Edward Arnold 1996.

Mudimbe, V.Y. The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University press, 1988.

Moore-Gilbert, Bart. Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics. London: Verso, 1997.

Nandy, A. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Niranjana, Tejaswine. Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. London: Verso, 1993.

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. London: Penguin, 1991.

Said, Edward. Orientalism, New York: Vintage, 1978.

________. The World, the Text and the Critic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

________. "Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World". Salmagundi 70/71, (1986) 44-64.

________. Musical Elaborations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

________. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

________. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

________. The Question of Palestine, New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

Slemon, S. 'The Scramble for Post-Colonialism". The Post-colonial Studies Reader, London:Routledge, 1995, 45-52.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakavorty. "The Making of Americans, the Teaching of English, and the Future of Culture Studies," New Literary History 21 (1990): 781-798.

________. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics,  London: Methuen, 1987.

________."Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg, eds. Marxism and the interpretation of Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 271-313.

________. Selected Subaltern Studies. Ed. with Ranajit Guha. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

________. The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues. Ed. Sarah Harasym. London: Routledge, 1990.

________. Outside in the Teaching Machine. (London: Routledge, 1993.

________. The Spivak Reader. Ed. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.

________. A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Suleri, Sara. "Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition." Critical Inquiry, 18 (4) (Summer), 1992.

Williams, Patrick & Chrisman, Laura. (eds.) Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Young, Robert. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. London: Routledge, 1990.