List of Contributors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Scale and Sensibility xi
Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg
1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1
Edward Said
2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15
Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff
3 Resident Alien 47
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66
Benita Parry
5 Racial Rule 82
David Theo Goldberg
6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103
Ann Laura Stoler
7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122
Anne Bailey
8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143
Barnor Hesse
9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174
Olu Oguibe
10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184
Pal Ahluwalia
11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205
Zane Ma-Rhea
12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217
Ato Quayson
13 Theorizing Disability 231
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270
John K. Noyes
15 Passing as Korean American 282
Wendy Ann Lee
16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294
Eve Darian-Smith
17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320
Dawn Duncan
18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334
Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope
19 Post-Scriptum 349
Francois Verges
Index 359