After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

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After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath.

Gyan Prakash is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India and coeditor of Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia.

"The contributors are drawn from literary and cultural studies, anthropology, and history, and their work represents the latest in subaltern studies and theorizing about postcolonialism... The contributors challenge disciplinary categories, conventional notions of cultural difference, and offer alternative 'displacements.'"--Virginia Quarterly Review