Postcolonial studies and beyond / edited by Ania Loomba ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-478) and index.

Beyond what? : an introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton and Jed Esty -- Pt. 1. Globalization and the postcolonial eclipse -- Beyond the straits : postcolonial allegories of the globe / Peter Hulme -- On globalization, again! / Ali Behdad -- The ruins of empire : the national and global politics of America's return to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan -- The economic image-function of the periphery / Timothy Brennan -- Pt. 2. Neoliberalism and the postcolonial world -- The end of history, again? : pursuing the past in the postcolony / Jean Comaroff -- A flight from freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development / James Ferguson -- "The deep thoughts the one in need falls into" : Quotidian experience and the perspectives of poetry in postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole -- Between the burqa and the beauty parlor? : globalization, cultural nationalism, and feminist politics / Nivedita Menon -- Pt. 3. Beyond the nation-state (and back again) -- Environmentalism and postcolonialism / Rob Nixon -- Beyond black Atlantic and postcolonial studies : the South African differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman -- Pathways to postcolonial nationhood : the democratization of difference in contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon -- Traveling multiculturalism : a trinational debate in translation / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat -- The ballad of the sad cafe : Israeli leisure, Palestinian terror, and the post/colonial question / Rebecca L. Stein -- Pt. 4. Postcolonial studies and the disciplines in transformation -- Hybridity and heresy : apartheid comparative religion in late antiquity / Daniel Boyarin -- Eugenic woman, semicolonialism, and colonial modernity as problems for postcolonial theory / Tani E. Barlow -- The social construction of postcolonial studies / David Scott -- Postcolonial studies and the study of history / Frederick Cooper -- The politics of postcolonial modernism / Neil Lazarus.