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- Achebe, Chinua, 44, 121
- administered world, 27, 33, 36, 93, 100, 102, 103, 113, 129, 132, 229, 231, 232, 233, 236
- Adorno, Theodor W., 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 17, 24, 27, 28–29, 83, 88–102, 103–6, 108–10, 112–15, 118–19, 124, 126–28, 149, 195, 196, 198, 201, 204–5, 206, 220–21, 226–28, 229–30, 232, 234–36, 242–43, 245, 248n. 10, 258nn. 1, 3, 258–59n. 4, 259nn. 6, 7, 8, 9, 260nn. 13, 16, 261n. 19, 261n. 5, 263–64n. 2, 264nn. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 266nn. 21, 22, 23; Aesthetic Theory, 89, 90, 97, 106, 110, 111, 115, 118, 124, 125, 127, 128, 195, 196, 198, 201, 220, 226–28, 229–30, 234, 236, 242, 243; Dialectic of Enlightenment, 94; Negative Dialectics, 109, 110, 266nn. 22, 23; Notes to Literature, 112, 124, 125, 149, 242, 258–59n. 4, 261n. 5, 266n. 23; “On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening,” 103; Prisms: Cultural Criticism and Society, 93, 230
- aesthesia, 126
- aesthetic: as code, 6; dimension, 1, 2, 4, 14, 17, 77, 88, 129–30, 234; distance, 198; experience, 234, 263–64n. 2; filtration, 167–68; particular, 264n. 9; reconciliation, 236; refraction, 201; representation, 265n. 12
- aestheticism, 4, 126
- aestheticization, 30, 139, 143, 159, 206, 230, 232, 236, 265n. 19
- aesthetics, 7, 88–89, 92, 211, 213, 235, 246; dialectical, 5, 9, 12, 15, 28, 107; Marxist, 4, 15, 25, 88, 92, 111; postcolonial, 102–19
- African American literature, 38
- Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 158, 263n. 16
- Ahmad, Aijaz, 5, 10, 12–13, 26–27, 42, 43, 53, 68, 122, 170, 173, 209–10, 225, 228–29, 249n. 3, 265n. 17
- Aidoo, Ama Ata, 51
- Ali, Tariq, 174
- Allen, Theodore, 58
- Allende, Isabel, 262n. 4
- Alvares, Claude, 251n. 15
- American literature, 38–39, 42
- anamnesis, 118, 163, 261n. 21
- Anderson, Benedict, 157
- Appadurai, Arjun, 260n. 11
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 66, 249n. 1, 250n. 4
- Appignanesi, Lisa, 3
- Aristotle, 244, 266n. 27
- Armah, Ayi Kwei, 51
- Aronowitz, Stanley, 262n. 6
- art, 221; autonomous art, 5, 33, 91, 94, 102, 103, 106, 232; as commodity, 5, 6, 90, 91, 93, 103, 107, 128, 263–64n. 2; definition of, 261n. 5; and empirical reality, 110, 232, 235; as labor, 202; modern, 7, 203–4; and nature, 220, 221; power of, 140–41, 80, 201, 221; and praxis, 226–28; and psychological forces, 266n. 21; purpose of, 115–19, 198, 236; as redemptive, 236; as recollection, 116, 220
- Arthur, W. Brian, 35
- Ashcroft, Bill, 39–41, 44, 48, 56, 63–64, 146
- Astride, Derek, 121
- atonality, 94, 103
- Atwood, Margaret, 255n. 18
- Auden, W. H., 198
- aura, 95, 97, 197, 204–5, 206, 264nn. 6, 7
- autonomy, 5, 33, 53, 91, 92, 93, 100, 102, 103, 106, 110, 111, 114, 229, 232
- Bakhtin, Mikhail, 94, 262n. 9
- Banville, John, 263n. 14
- Barker, Francis, 249–50n. 4, 250n. 8
- Barry, Peter, 54
- 4 Barthes, Roland, 123
- Baudelaire, Charles, 30, 189–90, 192, 197, 203
- Baxandall, Lee, 248n. 11
- Baym, Nina, 42–43, 45
- Beatty, Steve, 249n. 2
- beauty, 111, 117, 220, 235
- Beckett, Samuel, 73
- Beech, David, 248n. 7
- Benjamin, Andrew, 213
- Benjamin, Walter, 5, 24, 30, 84–85, 88–102, 105–6, 108, 111–16, 118–19, 126, 149, 150, 156, 162–63, 175, 180, 190–91, 193, 196–97, 200–209, 211, 215, 216, 220–21, 247n. 3, 257n. 31, 258n. 1, 259nn. 5, 7, 260n. 21, 263n. 8, 263n. 1, 264nn. 5, 6, 7, 265n. 12, 266nn. 24, 25; Briefe, 113, 150; Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, 127, 197; Illuminations, 116, 156, 162–63, 180, 190, 191, 200–202, 208, 215, 221; The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 196; Reflections, 180
- Berman, Marshall, 27, 33, 227, 263n. 11
- Bérubé, Michael, 248n. 8
- Besant, Annie, 57
- Bhabha, Homi, 107, 138, 147, 247n. 4
- Black, Max, 150
- Boehmer, Elleke, 56–57
- Boland, Eavan, 253n. 5
- Bolger, Dermot, 67, 74
- Booker prize, 34, 156, 212
- Booth, Wayne C., 241
- Bose, Brinda, 265n. 17
- Brasted, H. V., 252n. 4
- Brecht, Bertolt, 227
- Brennan, Timothy, 2, 3, 5, 11, 43, 48, 49, 72, 154, 155, 156, 158, 162, 166, 174, 205, 248n. 5, 262n. 4
- Brydon, Diana, 250n. 5
- Bubner, Rüdinger, 248n. 9
- Buck-Morss, Susan, 7, 175, 258n. 3, 260n. 15
- Buhler, James, 109, 258n. 4
- Burke, Edmund, 73
- Burris, Sidney, 82, 257n. 34
- Cadbury, William, 255n. 221
- Cairns, David, 258nn. 35, 37, 57, 83
- Callaghan, Dympna, 73, 255n. 22
- Candy, Catherine, 252n. 4
- capitalism, 2, 8, 18, 33, 47, 68, 69, 70, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103–4, 114, 116, 183, 184, 188, 196, 201, 226
- Carey, Glenn O., 120–21
- Carlyle, Thomas, 59
- Carson, Ciarán, 80
- Casement, Roger, 255n. 21
- Césaire, Aimé, 44
- Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 69, 96, 97, 161, 260n. 11
- Chatterjee, Partha, 158
- Chatterjee, Upamanyu, 127
- Chaudhuri, Kirti N., 218
- Chaudhuri, Una, 163
- Cheng, Vincent J., 60, 252n. 4, 256n. 25, 257n. 28
- Childs, Peter, 250n. 7
- Chow, Rey, 107
- Chrisman, Laura, 43–44, 46, 250n. 7
- city, 30, 135–37, 176, 191–93
- Coetzee, J. M., 263n. 10
- colonialism, internal, 66
- commodification, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 27, 33, 42, 88, 95, 100, 103, 107, 109, 114, 123, 124, 140, 160, 201, 249n. 2, 263–64n. 2
- commonwealth literature, 39–40, 42
- communism, 47, 222–26, 234
- constellation, 96, 101, 109
- Coolahan, John, 64, 253nn. 6, 7, 255n. 20
- Corkery, Daniel, 253n. 7
- Cornelius, Hans, 259n. 5
- cosmopolitan writing, 2, 262n. 4
- critical theory, 5, 6, 88–119, 260n. 15
- criticism, 7, 14, 21, 26
- Cuba, 49
- culture industry, 92, 97, 101, 103–4, 128, 259nn. 8, 10, 260n. 13
- Cundy, Catherine, 153, 154, 155, 162, 262n. 6
- Curtis, L. P., Jr., 60
- Dasenbrock, Reed Way, 74, 121
- Davis, P. Richard, 252n. 4
- de Alva, J. Jorge Klor, 50
- Deane, Seamus, 73, 79, 252–53n. 5, 255–56n. 22, 258n. 36
- death, 8, 30, 84, 144, 145, 192, 193, 234, 244, 265n. 19
- Debray, Regis, 185
- de Man, Paul, 35
- Dews, Peter, 260n. 16
- diaspora, 46, 57–58, 127, 157, 176, 254n. 11
- difference, 21, 26, 60, 63, 69, 70, 76, 147; racial, 59–63, 67
- Dirlik, Arif, 43, 45, 48
- discipline: postcolonial, 23
- disciplinization, 35–36, 42–43
- Donoghue, Denis, 68, 74, 75
- Donougho, Martin, 91, 264n. 6
- Duncan, Dawn, 254n. 12
- Dunsany, Lord, 61
- During, Simon, 48, 250n. 7
- Eagleton, Terry, 15, 16, 21, 25, 68, 73, 107–8, 148–49, 192, 198, 213, 234, 236, 247n. 1, 251n. 1, 254n. 11, 256n. 25, 257n. 31, 260n. 15
- Eliot, T. S., 40, 130, 144
- Ellis, Steven G., 255n. 19
- Emecheta, Buchi, 40
- Engels, Friedrich, 191, 248n. 7, 265n. 15 ethical: action, 114, 174, 192; position, 21, 107, 213, 239; representation, 34, 173
- Europe, 48–49, 69, 256n. 23
- experience, 200–205, 207–8, 210–11, 213–14, 220, 232, 234, 238–39, 263n. 1
- Fabian, Johannes, 25
- Faiz, Faiz Ahmed, 51, 229
- Fanon, Frantz, 44, 52, 158, 194–95, 250n. 10, 252n. 5
- Field Day Theatre Company, 252–53n. 5
- Firdausi, 130
- Fischer, Norman, 106, 114, 234
- Fletcher, M. D., 154
- Foreman, Clark, 217
- formalism, 126
- Foster, Thomas C., 257n. 32
- Foucault, Michel, 22, 35–36, 54
- Frank, Andre Gunder, 218
- Freeman, Edward Augustus, 254n. 16
- Freud, Sigmund, 117–18, 148
- Friedman, George, 248n. 9
- Friel, Brian, 252n. 5, 256n. 22
- Fromm, Erich, 258n. 2
- Fukuyama, Francis, 47, 95
- Gandhi, Leela, 161, 176, 177
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 185
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 262n. 4
- Gardner, James, 262n. 3
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 38
- Ghosh, Amitav, 103
- Ghosh, Bishnupriya, 123
- Gibbons, Luke, 23, 58, 59, 60, 64–65, 254n. 13–14
- Giddens, Anthony, 257n. 26
- Gilley, Sheridan, 59, 61, 254n. 13
- Gilroy, Paul, 218, 219
- Glenn, Joshua, 87
- Glissant, Edouard, 44, 219, 250n. 10
- global: aesthetic, 9; capitalism, 4, 8, 9, 48, 70, 92, 94, 95, 98, 100, 185, 190, 226; culture industry, 2, 5, 101, 103; globalism, 216; globalization, 30–31, 46, 70, 76, 90, 99, 148, 184, 201, 216–19, 247–48n. 4; Islamic globalization, 127; marketplace, 10, 24, 26, 33, 120, 123, 202; modernity, 75; scale, 22–23, 39, 60
- Godzich, Wlad, 121, 261n. 1
- Goggin, Maureen Daly, 249n. 2
- Goldmann, Lucien, 89, 111
- Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A., 154, 262n. 1
- Graff, Gerald, 123
- Graham, Colin, 251n. 2
- Gramsci, Antonio, 172
- Green, Alice Stopford, 255n. 21
- Griffiths, Gareth, 39–41, 48, 54, 63–64, 146
- Guha, Ranajit, 163, 164, 169, 172
- Gunnarson, Sturla, 262n. 7
- Habermas, Jürgen, 257n. 26, 258n. 2
- Hall, Stuart, 34, 176–77, 249n. 1, 250n. 12
- Harrison, James, 153, 154
- Hart, Henry, 79, 258n. 36
- Hartmann, Geoffrey, 84
- Harvey, David, 156, 195
- Headrick, Daniel R., 217–18
- Heaney, Seamus, 17, 24, 36, 76–87, 257n. 33, 258nn. 36, 37, 259nn. 5, 8
- Hegel, G. W. F., 92, 259n. 7
- Held, David, 97, 104, 108, 248n. 10, 259n, 8, 260n. 15
- Hindu fundamentalism, 138, 183–88
- Hinduism, 138
- history, 115–16, 138, 157–61, 163–64, 176, 183, 185–87, 192–95, 198–200, 213–16, 219–20, 222–23, 229, 239–40, 241–46, 265n. 13
- Hobsbawm, Eric, 219
- Hodge, Bob, 43
- Hohendahl, Peter Uwe, 260n. 10
- hooks, bell, 261n. 2
- Horkheimer, Max, 25, 92, 94, 258n. 2
- Howe, Stephen, 255nn. 17, 21
- Huggan, Graham, 33, 34
- Huhn, Tom, 260n. 16
- Hullot-Kentor, Robert, 247n. 2, 258–59n. 4
- Hulme, Peter, 249–50n. 4, 250n. 8
- human nature. See nature
- hybridity, 26, 30, 46, 54, 147–48, 153, 155–56, 159, 175–80, 188–89, 196
- James, C. L. R., 44, 250n. 10
- James, Henry, 40
- Jameson, Fredric, 5, 6, 8, 13–14, 15, 42, 72, 191, 259n. 6, 260n. 15, 261n. 20
- JanMohamed, Abdul, 107, 250nn. 4, 13, 251n. 15
- Jarvis, Simon, 235
- Jay, Martin, 94, 96, 101, 116, 117, 118, 123, 235, 245, 248n. 10, 259n. 6, 260nn. 13, 15, 16, 261n. 21, 264nn. 4, 5
- Jilberto, Alex E., Fernández: and André Mommen, 217
- Johansen, Ib, 155
- joke, 147–49
- Joyce, James, 73, 74, 131, 212
- Jussawalla, Feroza, 74
- justice, 25, 98–99, 105, 146, 236
- Kamboureli, Smaro, 261n. 3
- Kant, Immanuel, 92, 259n. 7
- Kapur, Geeta, 260n. 10
- Karp, Ivan, 147–48
- Kathakali, 201–3
- Katz, Barry M, 112, 117
- Kearney, Richard, 80–81, 251n. 1, 253n. 5
- Kelleher, Margaret, 57
- Kellner, Douglas, 259n. 10, 263n. 12, 265n. 16
- Kennedy, Liam, 64, 65, 67, 68, 255n. 22, 256n. 25
- Kester, Grant, 248n. 7
- Kiberd, Declan, 57, 60, 63, 64, 66, 253nn. 7, 8, 10, 254n. 14, 255n. 17, 256n. 22
- Kipling, Rudyard, 61
- Kirpal, Vinay, 250n. 5
- Knauft, Bruce M., 260n. 12
- Kolodny, Annette, 121
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 259n. 6
- Krieger, Murray, 113, 126
- Kripalani, Manjeet, 264n. 11
- Kristeva, Julia, 237, 240
- Lamming, George, 44
- language, 120–21, 126–27, 128–29, 130–31, 146–51, 206, 210, 237
- Lazarus, Neil, 2, 31, 48, 53
- Lenhardt, C., 247n. 2, 259n. 4
- Lentricchia, Frank, 13
- Levine, George, 248n. 6
- Levinson, Brett, 49
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 20, 249n. 18
- Linnaeus, Carl, 218
- Livingstone, Rodney, 258n. 3, 260n. 10
- Lloyd, David, 70–71, 74, 76, 78, 80, 251–2n. 2, 256n. 25, 257n. 33
- Lloyd, Trevor, 61
- Longley, Edna, 49, 72, 74, 253n. 5
- Loomba, Ania, 254n. 14
- love, 8, 31, 132, 192, 193, 228–29, 231, 232, 233–34, 235, 237, 243, 244, 263n. 12
- Lowenthal, Leo, 25, 101, 258n. 2
- Lukács, Georg, 89, 92, 100, 258n. 3, 259n. 7
- Lunn, Eugene, 113, 248n. 7, 259n. 9, 260nn. 14, 15, 264nn. 6, 7, 266nn. 24, 25
- Lysaker, John T., 6
- MacNeice, Louis, 70
- Maitland, Sara, 3
- Malcolmson, Stuart, 175
- Mansfield, Katherine, 40
- Maraire, J., Nozipo, 51
- Marcuse, Herbert, 1, 4, 7, 8, 25, 28, 29, 31, 88–102, 105, 106, 108, 111, 114, 115–19, 125, 126, 128, 129, 166, 196, 227, 232, 233–34, 235, 258n. 1, 261n. 20, 21, 263n. 12, 265nn. 16, 19, 20; The Aesthetic Dimension, 89, 114, 115, 116–17, 125, 126, 128, 129, 227, 232, 233–34, 235, 265nn. 19, 20; Counterrevolution and Revolt, 4, 111, 116–17; Eros and Civilization, 4, 118; An Essay on Liberation, 88; Five Lectures, 118
- Marx, Karl, 27, 33, 104–5, 107, 110, 117, 183, 231, 234, 247n. 1, 248n. 7, 259n. 7, 260–61n. 17, 263n. 11, 265nn. 13, 15
- Matsikidze, Isabella, 249n. 1
- McClintock, Ann, 249n. 1
- McCormack, W. J., 252n. 5
- Memmi, Albert, 127
- memory, 30, 84–85, 115–19, 157, 162, 164, 178, 179–80, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207–13, 220, 230–35, 237–46, 261nn. 20, 21, 264n. 5, 266nn. 25, 26
- metaphor, 150–51
- metonymy, 165–66
- Mill, John Stuart, 61
- Milne, Drew, 5
- mimesis, 106, 110, 111, 114, 117, 119, 123–28, 129, 181, 202, 221, 235, 265n. 12
- Mintz, Sidney W., 218
- Mishra, Vijay, 43
- Mistry, Rohinton, 2, 28, 103, 120–51, 177; Such a Long Journey, 120–51
- modernity, 66, 69, 70, 75, 88, 95–100, 103, 135, 136–37, 140, 146, 157, 178, 183, 192, 203, 205, 218, 219, 245–46, 260n. 12, 263n. 1; colonial, 157; global, 75; liquid, 97, 100; vernacular, 95–97, 102, 103
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 45–46
- Molino, Michael R., 257–58n. 35
- montage, 25, 90, 157, 175, 180, 195, 263n. 8
- Morawski, Stefan, 248n. 11
- Morrison, Blake, 78, 80, 257n. 33
- Mukherjee, Arun, 142
- Mukherjee, Bharati, 262n. 4
- Murphy, Andrew, 257n. 33
- Nägele, Rainer, 107, 249n. 19, 258n. 1
- Naipaul, V. S., 40, 253n. 7
- Namboodiripad, E. M. S., 225
- nation, 46, 138, 156, 158, 162–67, 182, 197
- national allegory, 77, 131
- nationalism, 46, 58
- national literature, 71–72
- native, 17–19, 79, 85–86, 107, 249nn. 14, 15; informancy, 4, 7, 17–19; intelligence, 7, 17–21, 37, 103, 156, 184, 245–46, 249n. 14
- nature, 105–6, 116, 117, 128, 131, 183, 191–92, 193, 196, 219, 220, 221, 222, 226, 233, 234–35, 241–46, 265n. 20
- negative dialectics, 92
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 57, 253n. 8
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 121, 253n. 8
- Nicholsen, Shierry Weber, 259n. 6
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, 259n. 7
- Nolan, Emer, 74
- nonidentity, 92, 104, 108, 111, 115, 118, 125, 213, 220, 221, 266n. 22
- novelty, 3, 4, 9, 27, 31, 34, 175, 201, 211, 214, 217, 219; as longing for the new, 4, 9, 27, 31, 99, 130, 198, 236, 243
- Parsis, 127
- Parsons, Sir William, 57
- Pelletier, Martine, 252n. 5
- Philips, Caryl, 40
- pleasure, 117, 228, 235
- poetry, 24, 77, 112, 128
- Porter, Bernard, 255n. 21
- postcolonial: aesthetics (see aesthetics); art, 261n. 18; discipline, 23; themes, 131–32, 159
- postcolonialism, Latin American, 49–50
- postcoloniality: anomalous, 58; literary, 11, 37; and technology, 47
- Postman, Neil, 184
- Pound, Ezra, 4
- Prakash, Gyan, 218, 260n. 11
- Pratt, Mary Louise, 218
- Prawer, S. S., 260–61n. 17
- praxis, 114–15, 129, 226–28
- Premchand, Munshi, 3
- Proust, Marcel, 131, 203, 209, 211, 237, 240, 266n. 25
- race, 59–63, 67
- Radhakrishnan, R, 219
- Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder, 251n. 15
- Ramazani, Jahan, 75–76
- Ram Rajya, 98
- Rast, Herbert, 260n. 11
- Ray, David, 120–21
- Rea, Stephen, 252n. 5
- realism, 3, 28, 89, 121–23, 128, 131, 225, 238
- reason: instrumental, 92, 103, 108, 109, 112, 113, 116, 124, 125, 188, 227, 232, 234, 237, 243, 248n. 10; true, 105
- recollection. See memory
- reification, 89, 92, 94, 107, 116, 119, 132
- remembrance. See memory
- Renan, Ernest, 253n. 9
- representation, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 24, 28, 32, 33, 72–73, 88, 107–9, 112, 119, 123, 128, 131, 159, 160–61, 168–74, 182, 201, 212, 225, 236, 238, 242, 265n. 12, 266n. 22
- Ricci, Nino, 261n. 3
- Richards, I. A., 150
- Richards, Shaun, 57, 74, 83, 252–53n. 5, 258nn. 35, 37
- Roberts, David, 248n. 7, 260n. 16
- Roberts, John, 248n. 7
- Robinson, Mary, 253n. 10
- Rose, Gillian, 259n. 6
- Ross, Val, 122
- Roy, Arundhati, 2, 30, 34, 103, 177, 178, 200–246, 260n. 11, 266n. 28
- Ruane, Joseph, 67
- Rushdie, Salman, 2, 3, 10, 12–13, 29–30, 34, 40, 42, 96, 103, 115, 152–99, 205, 262nn. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7; “Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist,” 42; “‘Errata’; or, Unreliable Narration in Midnight’s Children,” 160; Grimus, 152–56, 157, 161, 198; The Ground beneath Her Feet, 161, 173, 191–92, 262n. 3; Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 182–83, 198–99; Imaginary Homelands, 1981–1991, 163, 175–76, 177, 178, 182, 193, 197, 199, 262n. 7; “Imaginative Maps,” 163, 170; “In Good Faith,” 161; Midnight’s Children, 155, 159, 160, 162—67, 172–74, 178, 262n. 1; “Midnight’s Children and Shame,” 177–78; The Moor’s Last Sigh, 157–59, 161, 167, 172–74, 177–99, 203; “Notes on Writing and the Nation,” 197; The Satanic Verses, 157, 174, 176, 183; Shame, 92, 157, 159, 168–72, 173–74, 262n. 5, 263n. 13
- Said, Edward, 10, 38, 41, 48–49, 90, 247n. 4, 250n. 4, 252n. 3, 252n. 5
- San Juan, Epifanio, Jr., 22
- Scholes, Robert, 126
- Scott, Sir Walter, 264–65n. 11
- Shapiro, Alan, 80–81
- Sharpe, Jenny, 39
- Shiva, Vandana, 251n. 15
- Shohat, Ella, 43, 249n. 1, 250n. 6
- Shroyer, Trent, 261n. 20
- Sikander, Shahzia, 147
- Simmel, Georg, 135–37, 139, 188
- Sinha, Yashwant, 264n. 11
- Sinn Féin, 57, 251n. 1
- Slater, Phil, 248n. 9
- Slemon, Stephen, 48
- Smith, Gary, 259n. 5
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 247–48n. 4, 249nn. 16, 17, 250n. 4, 251n. 14, 253n. 5
- Spurr, David, 157, 252n. 4, 262n. 2
- Steinberg, Sybil, 127
- Stendhal, 8
- Sterne, Laurence, 73
- Stoler, Ann Laura, 250n. 11
- Strong, George Templeton, 61
- subaltern, 29, 75, 122, 157–59, 164, 166–74, 198
- subject and object, 6, 10, 93, 107, 108–11, 118, 128, 173–74, 220; ethical engagement of, 173, 198, 213, 221
- Suleri, Sara, 45
- Sullivan, Michael, 6
- Tagore, Rabindranath, 44, 57, 130
- Taussig, Michael T., 170
- Taylor, Lawrence J., 257n. 29
- third world, 12, 18, 41, 43, 45, 50, 53, 59, 67–70, 119, 159, 175, 211, 246, 253n. 10, 256n. 25, 262n. 4
- Tiffin, Helen, 39–41, 44, 48, 54, 56, 63–64, 146, 256n. 24
- Toffler, Alvin, 42
- tradition, 95, 200–201, 205, 207, 211
- trauma, 238–39
- Trinh T., Minh-ha, 250n. 5
- Trivedi, Harish, 19, 175
- Truax, Alice, 213
- truth content, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 17, 21, 54, 93, 105, 108, 110, 114, 125, 201, 228
- Tutuola, Amos, 44
- value: of art and literature, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11–17, 24, 54, 76, 92, 93, 101, 103, 109, 114, 123; exchange, 24, 104, 107, 109, 112, 123, 160, 188, 236, 263–64n. 2; of novelty, 175; system, 69–70, 86, 95, 155
- Varadharajan, Asha, 107
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 262n. 4
- Varshney, Ashutosh, 186, 187
- Vendler, Helen, 78
- Verma, Suparn, 262n. 7
- Voloshinov, Valentin, 124
- Walcott, Derek, 103, 262n. 4
- Weatherby, W. J., 152
- Weber, Max, 36, 217, 229, 248n. 10
- Welch, Robert, 256n. 23
- West, Cornel, 12
- Wiegman, Robyn, 261n. 2
- Wilde, Oscar, 73
- Williams, Patrick, 43–44, 46, 250n. 7
- Williams, Raymond, 204, 249n. 13
- Wills, Clair, 60–61, 74
- Wolfson, Susan, 77
- Wolin, Richard, 200, 203–4, 260n. 15, 263n. 8