Acknowledgements 1. The World in English Introduction: from Hurt Waldheim to Johnny Clegg The natural, neutral and beneficial spread of English The social, cultural and political contexts of English The worldliness of English Conclusion 2. Discourse and Dependency in a Shifting World Introduction: rethinking internationalism Development, aid and modernization Dependency and imperialism Culture, discourse, difference and disjuncture Criket, English and cultural politics 3. English and Colonialism: Origins of a Discourse Introduction: the complexities of colonialism Anglicism and Orientalism: two sides of the colonial coin English for the few: colonial education policies in Malaya Anglicism and English studies Conclusion 4. Spreading the Word/Disciplining the Language Introduction: anti-nomadic disciplines The disciplining of linguistics The disciplining of applied linguistics The spreading and disciplining of discourse of EIL 5. ELT From Development Aid to Global Commodity From cultural propaganda to global business: The British Council 'The West is better...': discourses of ELT English Language Teaching practices as cultural practices Conclusion: the compass of discourse 6. The Worldliness of English in Malaysia Contexts Cultural politics after independence Malay nationalism and English English, class and ethnicity English adn Islam English and the media The debates continue 7. The Worldliness of English in Singapore English as a useful language The making of Singapore Singapore English Pragmatism, multiracialism and meritocratism Pragmatic, multiracial and meritocratic English Conclusion 8. Writing Back: The Appropriation of English Postcolonial English Re-presenting postcolonial worlds Worldy texts in a worldly language Decentered voices: writing in Malaysia Centered voices: writing in Singapore From aestheticism to yuppyism: the new writing in Singapore From writing back to teaching back 9. Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Teaching English as a Worldly Language Critical pedagogies Discourse, language and subjectivity Insurgent knowledges, the classroom and the world References Index

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The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

Veblen has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs. He enriched and attacked both disciplines, as he did so many others: philosophy, history, social psychology, politics, and linguistics. Because he took all knowledge as necessary and relevant to adequate understanding, Veblen was a holistic analyst of the social process. First published in 1904, this classic analysis of the U.S. economy has enduring value today. In it, Veblen posited a theory of business fluctuations and economic growth which included chronic depression and inflation. He predicted the socioeconomic changes that would occur as a result: militarism, imperialism, fascism, consumerism, and the development of the mass media as well as the corporate bureaucracy. Douglas Dowd's introduction places the volume within the traditions of both macroeconomics and microeconomics, tracing Veblen's place among social thinkers, and the place of this volume in the body of his work.

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Practically everywhere one looks these days the concept of “civil society” is in vogue. Neo-Tocquevillean scholars argue that civil society plays a role in driving political, social, and even economic outcomes. This new conventional wisdom, however, is flawed. It is simply not true that democratic government is always strengthened, not weakened, when it faces a vigorous civil society. This essay shows how a robust civil society helped scuttle the twentieth century's most critical democratic experiment, Weimar Germany. An important implication of this analysis is that under certain circumstances associationism and the prospects for democratic stability can actually be inversely related. To know when civil society activity will take on oppositional or even antidemocratic tendencies, one needs to ground one's analyses in concrete examinations of political reality. Political scientists should remember that Tocqueville considered Americans' political associations to be as important as their nonpolitical ones, and they should therefore examine more closely the connections between the two under various conditions.

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IntroductionPART I. DAWN 1. From Dawn Island to Heart of Darkness 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryats MidshipmenPART II. NOON 3. Thackeray's India 4. Black Swans or, Botany Bay Eclogues 5. The New Crusades 6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the "Dark Continent" 7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857PART III. DUSK 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914 9. Epilogue: Kurtz's "Darkness" and Conrad's Heart of DarknessNotes Index

Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914

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Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1810-1960

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Case of the Poisonous Book 2. Gothic Toxins: The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and Caleb Williams 3. The Reading Monster 4. How Oliver Twist Learned to Read, and What He Found 5. Poor Jack, Poor Jane: Representing the Working Class and Women in Early and Mid-Victorian Novels 6. Cashing in on the Real in Thackeray and Trollope 7. Novel Sensations of the 1860s 8. The Educations of Edward Hyde and Edwin Reardon 9. Overbooked versus Bookless Futures in Late-Victorian Fiction Notes Works Cited Index

The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities" Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the US

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Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914

Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.

Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1810-1960

The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America