‘‘The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Beyond What? An Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse
6. Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe 41
7. On Globalization, Again! 62
8. The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome 80
9. The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery 101
10. Part 2 Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World
11. The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony 125
12. A Flight from Freedom 145
13. Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 166
14. ‘‘The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa 182
15. Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics 206
16. part 3 Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)
17. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism 233
18. Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams 252
19. Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America 272
20. Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation 293
21. The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question 317
22. Part 4 Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation
23. Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity 339
24. EugenicWoman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory 359
25. The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies 385
26. Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History 401
27. The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism 423
28. Bibliography 439
29. Contributors 479
30. Index 483