The Postcolonial Contemporary : Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

Watson, Jini Kim (EDT)/ Wilder, Gary (EDT)

Fordham University Press（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823280070
• DDC分類 325.301

Full Description

This volume invokes the "postcolonial contemporary" in order to recognize and reflect upon the 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 book 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 from the 1970s to 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: universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; politics vs. culture. The essays reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments, doing so under four interrelated analytics: postcolonial temporality; deprovincializing the global south; beyond Marxism versus postcolonial studies; and postcolonial spatiality and new political imaginaries.
From the book's powerful and substantial Introduction through its dozen compelling chapters, The Postcolonial Contemporary will be a landmark volume for reassessing a crucial critical framework for today's world.
Contributors: Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Vinay Gidwani, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder

Contents

Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Contemporary
Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder
1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions
Anthony C. Alessandrini
2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand's Chronicles of the Hostile Sun and In Another Place, Not Here
Laurie R. Lambert
3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Spectres of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality
Sharad Chari
4. Reading Du Bois's Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism
Gary Wilder
5. De-provincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar's Dalit
Anupama Rao
6. The Postcolonial Avant-Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al-Kharrat's Ethics of Tentative Innovation
Adam Spanos
7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation and, History in River of Fire and the Mermaid Madonna
Sadia Abbas
8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks
Vinay Gidwani
9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in North-West Australia
Stephen Muecke
10. Buenos Aires' La Salada's Market and Plebeian Citizenship
Carlos A. Forment
11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city
Peter Hitchcock
12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism
Jini Kim Watson
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index