A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

The best of postcolonialism is autocritical. That defining quality is beautifully
caught by this Companion. Even in so judicious an account as Rajeswari Sunder
Rajan and You-me Park’s “Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and
Feminism,” there is a sense that this peculiar brand of feminism is
separated from the vicissitudes of local feminisms. And, indeed, Ipshita Chanda’s
“Feminist Theory in Perspective” rounds out that sense, diffident for its distance
from metropolitan postcolonialism, located as she is in a “real” postcolony.
Upendra Baxi reminds us, from the other side of the same position, that much
greater attention to gender is paid in actually existing postcolonial constitutions
than is allowed by postcolonial theorists (although his argument for the
specifically feminist significance of having female heads of state has always left
me less than persuaded). We must keep in mind that nothing similar to what the
Companion establishes as “postcolonialism” came up “spontaneously” in the
national and regional languages of the world outside the Euro-US. In a
sense, Gaurav Desai’s “Rethinking E

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