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.
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.
Jini Kim Watson (Edited By) Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form and editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present. Gary Wilder (Edited By) Gary Wilder is Professor in Anthropology and French in the Graduate Center at City University of New York. His publications include The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (2005).
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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 Saladäs 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
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 Saladäs 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
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