The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

Published by Fordham University Press 2018

The Postcolonial Contemporary

Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

Edited by: Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder
With contributions by: Sadia Abbas , Anthony C. Alessandrini , Sharad Chari , Carlos A. Forment , Peter Hitchcock , Laurie Lambert , Stephen Muecke , Anupama Rao , Adam Spanos , Jini Kim Watson , Gary Wilder and Vinay Gidwani

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823280094

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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 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.

The introduction is itself a major intervention in postcolonial theory, written by two leading younger scholars—one of whose work was recently discussed on the Editorial Page of the New York Times.

Author / Editor information

Watson Jini Kim :

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 (Minnesota, 2011).Wilder Gary :

Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology and History and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015).Abbas Sadia :

Sadia Abbas is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.Hitchcock Peter :

Peter Hitchcock is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (1992); Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (1999); Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism (2003); The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form (2009); The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere (2016; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo); Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s) (2017); and, most recently, The Debt Age (2018; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia McClennen).Rao Anupama :

Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Caste Question (California, 2009).Watson Jini Kim :

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 (Minnesota, 2011).Wilder Gary :

Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology and History and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015).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 (Minnesota, 2011).

Gary Wilder (Edited By)
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology and History and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015).

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Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Con temporary Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions Anthony C. Alessandrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun Laurie R. Lambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Specters of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality Sharad Chari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. Reading Du Bois’s Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism Gary Wilder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Deprovincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar’s Dalit Anupama Rao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
6. The Postcolonial Avant- Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al- Kharrat’s Ethics of Tentative Innovation Adam Spanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation, and History in River of Fire and The Mermaid Madonna Sadia Abbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks Vinay Gidwani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in Northwest Australia Stephen Muecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
10. Buenos Aires’s La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship Carlos A. Forment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city Peter Hitchcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism Jini Kim Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: postcolonialism; postcolonial theory; global south; theory from the south; contemporaneity; Marxism; aftermaths; Imperialism; colonialism; global intellectual history

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Published: July 3, 2018
ISBN: 9780823280094