Many First World minority and Two-Thirds World theologians have taken up the theory of postcolonialism as a way of looking at biblical interpretative practices in the global context. Postcolonialism can be defined as a discourse of resistance that tries to "write back" and work against colonial assumptions and ideologies. Long established in cultural studies, this page hopes to present works that apply postcolonial theory to biblical interpretation. We aim to provide examples of how these Christians have used both indigenous and western critical methods to liberate the texts, and highlight the liberating potential of "other sacred texts" to meet the challenges of globalization. (R.S. Sugirtharajah)  

Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.  
PR 9080 .B64 1995  

Cesaire, Aime [videorecording]: A Voice for History = Une Voix Pour L'Histoire. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1994. 3 videocassettes in French with English subtitles.  
Contents: Part 1. The vigilant island = L'ile veilleuse -- Part 2. Where the edges of conquest meet = Au rendezvous de la conquete -- Part 3. The strength to face tomorrow = La force de regarder demain.  
PQ 3949 .C44 Z524 1994  

Darby, Philip.  The Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between International Relations and Postcolonialism.  
London ; Washington [D.C.] : Cassell, 1998.  
PN51 .D285 1998  

Dube Shomanah, Musa W. Toward A Post-Colonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, 1997.  
BS 476 .D834 1997  

Edward Said on Orientalism [videorecording]. Media Education Foundation. Sut Jhally, executive producer and director. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 1998.  
Edward Said's book Orientalism has been influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978.  In this interview he talks about the context in which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "The Orient."  
DS12 .S24 1998  

Frantz Fanon : Black Skin, White Mask [videorecording]. A Normal Films Production for BBC and the Arts Council of England in assoc. with Illuminations. Producer, Mark Nash; Director, Isaac Julien. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1995.  
Film explores one of the most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movement.  It follows Fanon from his birth in 1925 on the French island of Martinique through his medical training in France, then to Algeria where he joined the liberation struggle.  
CT 2628 .F35 F736 1995  

Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction.  New York : Columbia University press, 1998.  
Contents: 1. After colonialism -- 2. Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history -- 3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities -- 4. Edward Said and his critics -- 5. Postcolonialism and feminism -- 6. Imagining community: the question of nationalism -- 7. One world: the vision of postnationalism -- 8. Postcolonial literatures -- 9. The limits of postcolonial theory. Book cover image courtesy of Amazon.  
JV 51 .G36 1998  

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.  
JV 51 .L66 1998  

Said, Edward. Professor Edward Said in Lecture: The Myth of the "Clash of Civilizations" [videorecording]. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 1998.  
In this lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent policy thinking--that conflicts between different and clashing civilizations (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world.  Said argues that collapsing complex, diverse and contradictory groups of people into vast, simplistic abstractions have disastrous consequences.  He offers instead a vision of the "coexistence" of difference.  
DP60 .P76  

San Juan, Epifanio Jr. Beyond Postcolonial Theory.  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.  
Rocking the boat at the postcolonial establishment, Beyond Postcolonial Theory positions acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as a central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. What postcolonialism hides - racism and exploitation - assumes center stage here. Taking issue with the prominent postcolonial theories of Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, Filipino scholar E. San Juan, Jr. argues for a politically activist stance.  
D 883 .S16 1998  

Segovia, Fernando and Mary Ann Tolbert, eds. Reading from this place. Minneapolis : Fortress, 1995. Volumes 1 and 2.  v. 1. Social location and biblical interpretation in the United States -- v. 2. Social location and biblical              interpretation in global perspective.  
BS 476 .R42 1993  

________. Teaching the Bible : The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books,  
1998.  
BS 600.2 .T44 1998  

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.  A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of The Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.  
JV51 .S58 1999  

Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.). Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1998.  
BS 476 .S895 1998  

________. The Postcolonial Bible. Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.  
Contents: Biblical studies after the empire / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Remembering Babylon: postcolonialism and Australian biblical studies / Roland Boer -- Biblical criticism and postcolonial studies / Fernando F. Segovia -- The danger of ignoring one's own cultural bias in interpreting the text / Randall C. Bailey -- A postcolonial exploration of collusion and construction in biblical interpretation / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Savior of the world but not of this world / Musa W. Dube -- Places at the table / Sharon H. Ringe -- Submerged biblical histories and imperial biblical studies / Richard A. Horsley -- On color-coding Jesus / Kwok Pui-Lan -- Experiences with a biblical story / Bastiaan Wielenga.  
BS 476 .P678 1998  

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