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The Postcolonial Contemporary
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
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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.
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Contributor: Jini Kim Watson
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.
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Contributor: Gary Wilder
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the PhD Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.
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Contributor: Peter Hitchcock
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).
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Contributor: Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Caste Question (California, 2009).
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Contributor: Jini Kim Watson
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.
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Contributor: Gary Wilder
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the PhD Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.
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Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Con temporary
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1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions
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2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun
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3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Specters of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality
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4. Reading Du Bois’s Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism
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5. Deprovincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar’s Dalit
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6. The Postcolonial Avant- Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al- Kharrat’s Ethics of Tentative Innovation
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7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation, and History in River of Fire and The Mermaid Madonna
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8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks
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9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in Northwest Australia
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10. Buenos Aires’s La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship
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11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city
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12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism
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Acknowledgments
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List of Contributors
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Keywords for this book
postcolonialism; postcolonial theory; global south; theory from the south; contemporaneity; Marxism; aftermaths; Imperialism; colonialism; global intellectual history
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
