Search Results for postcolonial criticism

...Harry Garuba This essay attempts to locate the work of the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah within a tradition of African and postcolonial critical thought that privileges “teacherliness” as a measure of value and significance in its discourse and as an aesthetic principle in literary texts...

...Bruce Robbins Early postcolonial critics were at worst ambivalent about secularism, and more likely either uninterested or, like Edward Said, extremely enthusiastic. What is the meaning of the recent turn against secularism by critics in and around the field Said did so much to establish...

..., and Postcolonial Critique .” In Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science , edited by Scott Joan W. and Keates Debra , 227 – 51 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Dirlik Arif . 1994 . “ The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age...

.... And yet few have cared to reject the argument out- 7. Postcolonial criticism has rendered colonialism quite problematic. The concept has been rendered even more incoherent by the appropriation of paradigmatic postcolonial concepts (hybridity, borderlands, etc.) for social distinctions that have...

... the limit figures out of whose exclusion national literatures acquired their boundaries, postcolonial critics gave voice to representatives of multiple, often incompatible modernities unresponsive to comparativist strategies. Upon exposing the indissoluble linkage between the historical...

... (1986), Deane’s overarching project is to inventory the ways in which the mixed inheritances of the Enlightenment and CounterEnlightenment come to be played out on colonial terrain. And, like other postcolonial critics, his recur- rent concern is with the intricate and complex debts that various...

...Anikó Imre I argue that postcolonial discourses are essential to unearthing and revising the complicated dynamic of codependence between Western and Eastern European nationalisms, which is haunted by internalized and rarely acknowledged traces of imperialism on both sides. However, the spatial...

... of longer and more focused studies, each an examination of the consequences for particular intellectual constellations— from Byzantine history (Dimitris Krallis) to feminist and queer theory (Sadia Abbas, Nikita Dhawan), political theology (Jason Stevens, Gourgouris), and postcolonial criticism...

... School of Archi- tecture: ‘‘Philosophy of History: Theories of Self-Organization and Urban Dynamics and ‘‘Philosophy of Science: Thinking about Structures and Materials Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon. His most recent books are Postcolonial Criticism...

... , no. 1 : 3 – 30 . Zhu Keliang Riedinger Jeffrey M. 2009 . “ Rural China’s Nascent Land Market ,” China Business Review , September 1 . http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/rural-chinas-nascent-land-market/ . Taiwan Hong Kong People’s Republic of China Japan postcolonial...

... Thus, while the critique of capital and the defense of sovereignty may arguably have had the status of a regulative ideal in nationalist and postcolonial thought, sur- prisingly few critics associated with postcolonial cultural criticism have pub- licly confronted either the challenges posed...

...—primarily between China and Japan—made this endeavor difficult. The “contemporary” in this context is simultaneously a critical (or postcolonial) modernity that embraces notions of multiculturalism for “rethinking” Asia and a fractured modernity that does not quite manage to be a break from modern East...

... the reach of Western domination. Indeed, in the 1980s and 1990s postcolonial critics in the West generally assumed that the only forms and fields in which postcolonial literatures had hitherto existed were within Western political and institutional structures such as British Commonwealth literature...

... Ellison’s work without hyperboles of either outrage or defensive- ness. Critics should not construct for our subjects a historically impossible purity. I aim to show common problems in the study of postcolonial litera- ture and of the literature of the United States. Even though...

...Nergis Ertürk This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist...

.... Marxism's failure in the Arab world comes back from without to affirm from within the claimed successor of critical theory: a postcolonial discourse bereft of Marx. The double move of disavowal that underlies this logic unfolds accordingly: (1) critical theoretical formulations outside Europe have suffered...

... in the context of globalization and postcolonialism], in Houjimin lilun yu wenhua yingtong [Postcolonial criticism and cultural theory], ed. Zhang Jingyuan (Taipei: Rye Field, 1995), 401–20. 31. Fredric Jameson, “Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” Social Text 15 (Autumn 1986...

... to Ó Faoláin can be found in Kelly Matthews’s The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity. Here, Matthews iden- tifies Ó Faoláin as a postcolonial critic whose attentiveness to the multi- faceted nature of Irish ethnic and cultural identity anticipates Homi Bha- bha’s theorization...

.... Speaking to the diverse transformative effects of colonialism, Ghosh criticizes Chakrabarty’s emphasis on the ‘‘discursive and persuasive’’ as- pects of colonialism. He insists that the postcolonial intellectual give equal weight to the record of ‘‘coercionof racial violence, of population trans- fers...

... Other: Decolonialism versus Postcolonialism The question of “Jewish difference” in Christian Europe as a model for understanding the West’s relationship toward its colonial others has hardly been ignored. Over the years, several critics have identified the Jew as a key figure...