The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference 9780228015420
Conceptualizing post-Orientalism in new, anti-racist ways. Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades
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Table of contents :
Cover
The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization
PART ONE: Anti-Orientalism in Canada before Edward Said’s Orientalism
1 Dr Howard Adams’s Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization
2 Boomerang Epistemologies: Indian Health Services, the Sioux Lookout Project, and Colonially Entangled Knowledge
PART TWO: Edward Said’s World and the Formation of His Critique of Orientalism
3 Authenticity and Renewal in Jacques Berque’s Critique of Orientalism
4 Edward Said and the Politics of Race
5 Exodus or Revolution: “World Turned Inside Out” vs “World Turned Upside Down” in a 1980s Exchange
PART THREE: Post-Orientalism after Edward Said
6 Can the Subaltern of the Subaltern Speak? A Post-Orientalist Reading of Sayyid Qutb’s Notion of Hierarchy
7 The Challenges and Demands of Allyship through the Public Intellectual Platform
Contributors
Index
