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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809952603321

Titolo

The Postcolonial Contemporary : Political Imaginaries for the Global Present / / Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8232-8151-5

0-8232-8009-8

0-8232-8008-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Fordham scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

AbbasSadia

AlessandriniAnthony C

ChariSharad

FormentCarlos A

GidwaniVinay

HitchcockPeter

LambertLaurie

MueckeStephen <1951->

RaoAnupama

SpanosAdam

WatsonJini Kim

WilderGary

Disciplina

325/.301

Soggetti

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Con temporary -- 1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions -- 2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun -- 3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Specters of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality -- 4. Reading Du Bois’s Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic



Criticism -- 5. Deprovincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar’s Dalit -- 6. The Postcolonial Avant- Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al- Kharrat’s Ethics of Tentative Innovation -- 7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation, and History in River of Fire and The Mermaid Madonna -- 8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks -- 9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in Northwest Australia -- 10. Buenos Aires’s La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship -- 11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city -- 12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) The Postcolonial Contemporary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.