Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index
Introduction: Globalization and postcolonialism : hegemony and resistance in the 21st century -- Intellectual and historical background : the story of unequal development since 1500 -- Genealogies of the postcolonial -- Exemplary postcolonialism : Edward said, subaltern studies, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak -- Postcolonial encounters: Islamic "terrorism" and indigenous politics -- Globalization and postcolonialism : resistance here and now