The Postcolonial Contemporary : : Political Imaginaries for the Global Present /

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

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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 postcolonial...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Abbas, Sadia,
Alessandrini, Anthony C.,
Chari, Sharad,
Forment, Carlos A.,
Gidwani, Vinay,
Hitchcock, Peter,
Lambert, Laurie R.,
Muecke, Stephen,
Rao, Anupama,
Spanos, Adam,
Watson, Jini Kim,
Wilder, Gary,
TeilnehmendeR:
Abbas, Sadia.
Alessandrini, Anthony C.
Chari, Sharad.
Forment, Carlos A.
Gidwani, Vinay.
Hitchcock, Peter.
Lambert, Laurie.
Muecke, Stephen.
Rao, Anupama.
Spanos, Adam.
Watson, Jini Kim.
Wilder, Gary.
HerausgeberIn:
Watson, Jini Kim,
Wilder, Gary,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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