Bibliografia sui Postcolonial studies
Con speciale riguardo all'area sudasiatica

Federico Squarcini (*), Clelia Bartoli

Introduzione
Monografie e saggistica
Manuali, opere introduttive e bibliografiche
Riviste

Introduzione

Il testo di E.W. Said, Orientalism (1978), ha dato avvio a un dibattito sorprendentemente fervido, una sorta di rivoluzione nel mondo culturale che ha visto l'avvio di nuovi campi di indagine, la messa in discussione di vecchi, la creazione ex-novo di dipartimenti universitari e la ridenominazione di precedenti, ormai avvertiti come inappropriati. Questo recente filone di ricerca, variamente chiamato post-colonial studies, post-colonial theory o post-colonial discourse non utilizza il suffisso "post" come constatazione di un concreto superamento del colonialismo. Anzi, il discorso postcoloniale prende le mosse dalla considerazione che un certo colonialismo sia ancora in corso; tale modello di dominazione, infatti, non avrebbe semplicemente provocato un impoverimento materiale dei paesi ad esso soggetti, ma ne avrebbe intaccato la coscienza, distorcendo la loro stessa autopercezione tramite l'egemonia culturale, l'imposizione linguistica, la supremazia economia, tecnologica e militare.

I Post-colonial studies, nella varietà degli ambiti, delle discipline e delle loro diramazioni, mirano a produrre descrizioni del sistema mondo che esplicitino i rapporti di forza tra paesi, culture, strati sociali, generi, partecipando così al processo di ricostruzione identitaria, di riscatto dei soggetti subalterni e di indipendenza non solo politica. Essi esplorano pertanto le esperienze di oppressione e resistenza; le procedure di violenza simbolica e fattuale; il tema dell'identità culturale, etnica, religiosa, di genere; le dinamiche di immaginazione e rappresentazione dell'alterità, come quelle di appartenenza o di decentramento di sé; stabilendo un saldo connubio tra cultura e potere.

Si fa presente che questa bibliografia non comprende soltanto gli scritti di coloro che si identificano con la corrente detta degli studi post-coloniali, ma anche alcuni autori, critici o estranei, che hanno prodotto importanti riflessioni sul rapporto tra cultura e colonizzazione.

Monografie e saggistica

• Afzal-Khan, Fawzia; Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana, The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina), 2000.
• Ahmad, Aijaz, Lineages of the Present. Ideological and Political Genealogies of Contemporary South Asia, Verso, London, 2002.
• Albertazzi, Silvia, Lo sguardo dell'altro: le letterature postcoloniali, Carocci, Roma, 2000.
• ---, Traslating India: travel and cross-cultural, transference in post-colonial Indian fiction in English, CLUEB, Bologna, 1993.
• Anderson, Benedict, The Spectre of Comparisons. Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World, Verso, London, 1998.
• Badie, Bertrand, The Imported State. The Westernization of Political Order, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto (California), 2000.
• Balagangadhara, S.N., 'The Heathen in His Blindness ...': Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion, Brill, Leiden, 1994.
• Ballantyne, Tony, Orientalism, Racial Theory, and British Colonialism: An Aryan Empire (Cambridge Colonial and Postcolonial Studies), Palgrave, Cambridge, 2002.
• Barker, Francis; Hulme, Peter; Iversen, Margeret (ed.), Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory (Essex Symposia), Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996.
• Bartolovich, Crystal; Lazarus, Neil (eds.), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (Cultural Margins, 11), Cambridge University Press, (Luglio 2002).
• Bates, Crispin, Community, Empire, and Migration. South Asians in Diaspora, Palgrave, London, 2000.
• Bayly, Susan, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
• Beverley, John, Subalternity and Representation Arguments in Cultural Theory, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina), 1999.
• Bhabha, Homi, The Location of Culture, Routdlege, New York, 1994.
• Bickers, Robert, New Frontier. Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000
• Breckenridge, Carol A.; Van Der Veer, Peter (eds.), Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (South Asia Seminar), University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1993.
• Castle, Gregory, (ed.), Postcolonial Discourse: An Anthology, Blackwell Publisher, London, 2001.
• Castellino, Joshua, International law and self-determination : the interplay of the politics of territorial possession with formulations of post-colonial 'national' identity, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague-London, 2000.
• Chambers, Iain; Curti, Lidia (eds.), The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons, Routledge, Londra 1996.
• Chatterjee, Partha, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?, Zed Books, London, 1986.
• ---, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.
• Chaudhuri, K.N., Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilization of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
• Chun, Allen, Unstructuring Chinese Society. The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong, Routledge, London, 2002
• Clarke, David, Hong Kong Art. Culture and Decolonization, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina), 2002
• Cohn, Bernard, An Anthropologist among the Historians and other essays, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987.
• ---, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995.
• Colm Hogan, Patrick, Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000.
• Darian-Smith, Eve; Fitzpatrick, Peter (ed.), Laws of the Postcolonial. Law, Meaning and Violence, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1999.
• Dhareshwar, Vivek, "Valorizing the Present. Orientalism, Post-Coloniality and the Human Sciences", in Cultural Dynamics, 10 (1998), 2, pp. 211-231.
• Dirlik, Arif; Bahl, Vinay; Gran, Peter (eds.), History After the Three Worlds. Post-Eurocentric Historiographies, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
• Dirks, Nicholas B. (ed.), Colonialism and Culture, (Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series), University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1992.
• ---, "Reading Culture: Anthropology and the Textualization of India", in E.V. Daniel & J.M. Peck (eds.), Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Study, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995.
• ---, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.
• ---, In Near Ruins, Cultural Theory at the end of the Century, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis-London, 1998.
• Dirlik, Arif, "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism", inCritical Inquiry, 20, Winter 1994.
• Elst, Koenraad, Decolonizing the Hindu mind: ideological development of Hindu revivalism, Rupa & Co., New Delhi,2001.
• Fatehali Devji, Faisal, "Introduction", in Cultural Dynamics, 13 (2001), 3, pp. 259-261.
• Finklestein, David; Peers, Douglas Mark, Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Palgrave, London, 2000
• Hansen, Thomas Blom; Stepputat, Finn, States of Imagination. Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina), 2002
• Hansen, Thomas Blom, Wages of Violence. Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001
• Harper, T.N., The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001
• Harootunian, H.D., "Postcoloniality's unconscious/area studies' desire", in Postcolonial Studies, vol. 2, n. 2, 1999, pp. 127-147.
• Inden, Ronald, Imagining India, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
• ---, "Transcending Identities in Modern India's World", in Kathryn Dean (ed.), Politics and the Ends of Identity, London, Ashgate, 1997, pp. 64-102.
• ---, "Tradition Against Itself", in American Ethnologist, XIII, 4 (November 1986), pp. 762-75.
• ---, "Orientalist Constructions of India", in Modern Asian Studies, XX, 3 (1986), pp. 401-46.
• Ivekovic, R., Orients: critique de la raison postmoderne, Blandin, Paris, 1992.
• Joshi, Sanjay, Fractured Modernity. Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2001.
• Ketkar, S.V., History of Caste in India: Evidence of the Laws of Manu on the Social Condition in India During the Third Century A.D., Interpreted and Examined, with an Appendix on Radical Defects of Ethnology, 1909, Jaipur 1979.
• King, Richard, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East', Routledge, London, 1999.
• Kratoska, Paul, South East Asia: Colonial History, Routledge, London, 2001.
• Krishna, Sankaran, Postcolonial Insecurities. India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999.
• Lazarus, Neil, Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
• Mahajan, Sneh, British Foreign Policy 1874-1914. The Role of India, Routledge, London, 2001.
• Memmi, Albert, Ritratto del colonizzato e del colonizzatore, Liguori, Napoli, 1979.
• Morey, Peter, Fictions of India. Narrative and Power, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2001.
• Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth, Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization (Explorations in Postcolonial Studies), State University of New York Press, Albany, 2002.
• Nandy, Ashis, "The Politics of Secularism", in Veena Das, Mirrors of Violence, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992.
• Naregal, Veena, Language Politics, Elites and the Public Sphere. Western India Under Colonialism, Anthem, London, 2002.
• Pearson, M.N., Watson, I.B. (eds.), Asia and Europe: Commerce, colonialism and cultures. Essays in honour of Sinnapah Arasaratnam. South Asia Special Issue, Vol. XIX, 1996
• Prakash, Gyan (ed.), After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.
• ---, "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography", in Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 32, April 1990, p. 384.
• Punter, David, Postcolonial Imaginings. Fictions of a New World Order, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2000.
• Raman, Shankar, Framing 'India'. The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto (California), 2001
• Ray, Bharati, Early Feminists of Colonial India. Sarala Devia Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2002
• Ray, Sangeeta, En-Gendering India. Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina), 2000
• Roy, Parama, Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998.
• Sahlins, Marshall, How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995.
• Said, Edward W., Orientalism, Routledge and Kegan Paul, New York, 1978 (tr. it. E.W. Said, Orientalismo, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2001).
• ---, Cultura e imperialismo, Gamberetti, Roma, 1999.
• ---, Gli intellettuali e il potere, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1995.
• Sampat Patel, Niti, Postcolonial Masquerades. Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography, Garland Publishing, New York, 2001.
• Sandoval, Chela, Methodology of the Oppressed, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000.
• San Juan, E., Beyond Postcolonial Theory, Palgrave, London, 2000.
• Sarkar, Sumit, Writing Social History, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.
• Schwarz, Henry, Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1997.
• Scott, David, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999.
• Scott, Jamie S.; Simpson-Housley, Paul, Mapping the Sacred. Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures. (Cross/Cultures 48), Rodopi, 2001.
• Shankar, Subramanian, Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies), State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001.
• Shastri, Amita; Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (eds.), The Post-colonial States of South Asia. Democracy, Development and Identity, Curzon, London, 2000.
• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravarty, Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
• Sugirtharajah, R.S., The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial, Postcolonial Encounters, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
• Sugirtharajah, R.S., Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2002.
• Talbot, Cynthia, Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.
• Thiong'o, Ngugi wa, Spostare il centro del mondo, Meltemi, Roma, 2000.
• Van Der Veer, Peter, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.
• Van Der Veer, Peter; Lehmann, Hartmut (eds.), Nation and Religion, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.
• van Woerkens, Martine, The Strangled Traveler. Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000
• Verma, K.D., The Indian Imagination. Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English, Palgrave, London, 2000
• Washbrook, David; O'Hanlon, Rosalind, "After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World", in Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 34, January 1992.
• Williams, Patrick; Chrisman, Laura (eds.), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, Columbia University Press, New York, 1994.
• Wolf, Eric, Europe and the People without History, California University Press, Berkeley, 1982.
• Zaman, Niaz; Azim, Firdous; Hussain, Shawkat; Colonial and post-colonial encounters, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000.

Manuali, opere introduttive e bibliografiche

• Albertazzi, Silvia; Vecchi, Roberto (a cura di), Abbecedario postcoloniale: dieci voci per un lessico della postcolonialità, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2001.
• Dimitriadis, Greg; McCarthy, Cameron, Reading & Teaching the Postcolonial: From Baldwin to Basquiat and Beyond, Teachers College Press, New York, 2001.
• Chaturvedi Vinayak, Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, Verso, London, 2000.
• Gandhi, Leela, Postcolonial Theory, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998.
• Gilbert, Helen (ed.), Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology, Routledge, London, 2001.
• Hawley, John C.; Nelson Emmanuel S., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, 2001.
• Loomba, Ania, Colonialism/Postcolonialism. The New Critical Idiom, Routledge, Londra, 1998 (tr. it. Anja Loomba, Colonialismo/Postcolonialismo, Meltemi, Roma, 2000).
• Lopez, Alfred J., Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies), State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001.
• Mbembe, Achille, On the Postcolony, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001
• McLeod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000.
• Memmi, Albert, Ritratto del colonizzato e del colonizzatore, Liguori, Napoli, 1979.
• Mongia, Padmini (ed.), Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Edward Arnold, London, 1996.
• Moore-Gilbert, B.J., Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics, Verso Books, Londra, 1997.
• Nordquist, Joan, Postcolonial Theory: A Bibliography (Social Theory, no. 50), Reference & Research Services, 1998.
• ---, Postcolonial Theory (II): Literature and the Arts: A Bibliography (Social Theory: a bibliographic series), Reference & Research Services, 1999.
• Pui-Lan, Kwok; Donaldson, Laura E., Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, Routledge, London, 2001
• Quayson, Ato, Postcolonialism. Theory, Practice or Process, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000
• Ray, Sangeeta; Schwarz, Henry (eds.), A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture), Blackwell Publisher, London, 2000.
• Young, Robert J.C., Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Blackwell Publisher, Oxford, 2001.

Riviste

• Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Routledge. Taylor and Francis group.
• Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context, Murdoch University, Perth (Western Australia).
• Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge. Taylor and Francis group.
• Jouvert. A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro (Georgia).
• Postcolonial Foru, Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury.
• Postcolonial Studies, Routledge. Taylor and Francis group.
• Wasafiri. Postcolonial Journal of Literature, Art and Film, Department of English & Drama Queen Mary, University of London.

*. Federico Squarcini (Pisa, 1967) è dottorando presso il Dottorato di ricerca in 'Studi religiosi: scienze sociali e studi storici delle religioni' presso l'Università di Bologna. Ha curato: L'Oriente che non tramonta (LAS 1999); Verso l'India, oltre l'India. Scritti e ricerche sulle tradizioni intellettuali sudasiatiche (Mimesis 2002). E-mail: federico.squarcini@tin.it