This seminal worknow available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new prefaceis a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory.

Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topicDetails the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and AsiaAnalyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and culturesOffers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students

Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is one of the pioneers of the study of postcolonial literatures and their cultures, founded on an abiding interest in marginalized peoples and occluded histories. He is the Editor ofInterventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and the author of many books, includingEmpire, Colony, Postcolony(Wiley Blackwell, 2015), The Idea of English Ethnicity(Wiley Blackwell, 2008),Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race (1995), andWhite Mythologies(1990).

Preface to the Anniversary Edition ix

Preface to the First Edition xxvi

Acknowledgements xxix

1 Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique 1

Part I Concepts in History 13

2 Colonialism 15

3 Imperialism 25

4 Neocolonialism 44

5 Postcolonialism 57

Part II European Anti-colonialism 71

6 Las Casas to Bentham 73

7 NineteenthCentury Liberalism 88

8 Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism 101

Part III The Internationals 113

9 Socialism and Nationalism: The First International to the Russian Revolution 115

10 The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East 127

11 The Womens International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals 140

Part IV Theoretical Practices of the Freedom Struggles 159

12 The National Liberation Movements: Introduction 161

13 Marxism and the National Liberation Movements 167

14 China, Egypt, Bandung 182

15 Latin America I: Mariátegui, Transculturation and Cultural Dependency 193

16 Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the Tricontinental 204

17 Africa I: Anglophone African Socialism 217

18 Africa II: Nkrumah and PanAfricanism 236

19 Africa III: The Senghors and Francophone African Socialism 253

20 Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral 274

21 The Subject of Violence: Algeria, Ireland 293

22 India I: Marxism in India 308

23 India II: Gandhis Countermodernity 317

Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory 335

24 India III: Hybridity and Subaltern Agency 337

25 Women, Gender and Anticolonialism 360

26 Edward Said and Colonial Discourse 383

27 Foucault in Tunisia 395

28 Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria 411

Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice 427

Letter in Response from Jacques Derrida 429

Bibliography 432

Index 476