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Article: Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature.
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. $26.00
TO THOSE ACADEMICS THAT FEAR THE INVASION of postcolonial discourse in American Studies because it will undo the project of American exceptionalism, Postcolonial Theory and the United States is surely evidence that the enemy has landed. The book is a collection of essays of extraordinary range diachronically into the past of postcolonial thought and into various ethnic histories within the United States as well as synchronically across a wide variety of American experiences. Its cumulative effect is a convincing argument that "many of the concepts of postcolonial ...