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Third World and Post-Colonial Issues
Special Issue Editors John McClure and Aamir Mufti

Introduction
John McClure and Aamir Mufti

Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography
Gyan Prakash

Imagining a Post-Development Era?
Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements
Arturo Escobar

On the Question of a Theory of (Third World) Literature
Madhava Prasad

The Angel of Progress:
Pitfalls of the Term “Post-Colonialism”
Anne McClintock

Notes on the “Post-Colonial”
Ella Shohat

Subjectivity, Marxism, and Culture Theory in China
Liu Kang

The World and the Home
Homi Bhabha

Canonizing Soundiata in Mande Literature:
Toward a Sociology of Narrative Elements
Manthia Diawara

Comparative Cosmopolitanism
Bruce Robbins

Too Wilde for Comfort: Desire and Ideology
In Fin-de-Siecle Spanish America
Sylvia Molloy

We Are Not the World
George Yúdice

Unity and Difference In Black South Africa
Grant Farred

The Collapse of the Communist-Anticommunist Condominium:
The Reprecussions of South Africa
Rob Nixon

Unequal Developments

Overlegitimation
Jacques Rancière (translated by Kristin Ross)

The Third World in Jameson’s
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Santiago Colás

Rushdie, Islam, and Postcolonial Criticism
Tim Brennan

The Satanic Verses and the Cultural Politics of “Islam”:
A Response to Brennan
Aamir Mufti

Response to Aronowitz and Ross
Catherine Gallagher