ポストコロニアル理論入門

by Ania Loomba, 吉原ゆかり (Translator)

解説
植民地支配、ポストコロニアル理論をめぐる論争を、数々の具体例を交え概説。ポストコロニアル理論とジェンダーや人種、階級、植民地イデオロギーとの関係が一望できる。植民地主義とポストコロニアル理論と歴史背景を解説する入門書。

目次
はじめに
1　コロニアル／ポストコロニアル研究とはなにか
2　コロニアルなアイデンティティとポストコロニアルなアイデンティティ
3　植民地支配への挑戦
結論
原注
文献一覧
文献補遺
訳者あとがき

353 pages

Published June 1, 2001

About the author

Ania Loomba is an Indian literary scholar. She is the author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism and works as a literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ania Loomba received her BA (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph. D. from the University of Sussex, UK. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. She currently holds the Catherine Bryson Chair in the English department. She is also faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, and Women's Studies, and her courses are regularly cross-listed with these programs.

Many of her works - such as Colonialism / Postcolonialism (1998) and Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism (2002) - engage with Shakespeare and the Renaissance Theater. Her research on the history of racism since the early modern era includes work on England's early contacts with India, the Moluccas and Turkey.