Search Results for postcolonial theory

... views of the latter in East Asia from the context of literary postcolonial theory, while Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel's volume surveyed the interdisciplinary landscape of China's globalist political economy, perhaps in light of recent history. Despite the mutual thematic overlap, each work interprets...

... that the frequent application of postcolonial theories to the study of the region is to some extent enlightening but essentially insufficient. The author then broaches the main topic of the article—the import of Eastern European art in recent processes of subjectivization, identification, and representation...

... expansion of postcolonial discourse to Europe’s own backyard needs to be matched by an expansion of research methods and objects. Postcolonial studies’ traditional commitment to theory and to textual analysis of literature and art cinema is beneficially complemented by engaging with popular media...

... as a species, argues Chakrabarty, which is inevitably “connected to the enter- prise of deep history.”34 Chakrabarty eloquently describes the challenge that such a shift presents for a historian informed by postcolonial theory: “How do we relate to a universal history of life—to universal thought...

... Discourses 13 , no. 4 : 309 – 25 . Brandist Craig . 2018b . “ Language, Culture, and the Politics of Delimitation in Revolutionary Russia: Some Forgotten Origins of Postcolonial Theory .” In Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Diasporic Images and Re-presentations in Literature and Cinema , edited...

... at Boise State University. She has published on postcolonial theory, literature, and feminism, as well as the new eighteenth century. She, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube have collaborated on a book manuscript, Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History, which is forthcoming in January, 2005...

... and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity. Bishnupriya Ghosh currently teaches postcolonial literature and theory, gender/ sexuality, and film studies at the Department of English, University of California, Davis. Besides publishing several essays on South Asian cultural and gender studies, Ghosh...

... Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (2016), and essays on North African literature, Beur and banlieue cultural production, and postcolonial theory. Aamir R. Mufti was born and raised in Karachi and is professor of comparative literature at UCLA. Trained in literature...

... by Duke University Press 214 boundary 2 / Summer 2012 ticularly Muslim writers of the Caucasus. Her project investigates the discourses of secularism and modernity in shaping intersecting narratives of identity. More broadly, her work explores the theoretical confluence of semiotics, postcolonial...

.... Taylor, ‘‘Two Theories of Modernity 180. Desai / The Dilemmas of Postcoloniality 189 important footnote, Taylor writes, ‘‘Can we create a normatively superior alternative modernity? Can there be a plurality of culturally different alter- native modernities? We should...

..., eds. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Sissa, Giulia, and Marcel Detienne. The Daily Life of the GreekGods . Trans. Janet Lloyd. Mestizo Spaces. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Tang...

... Postcolonial Theory. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. Schirmeister, Pamela J. Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. Smith, Carlton. Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fic- tions of the Transcultural...

... Critical Inquiry Symposium’’ W. J. T. Mitchell and Wang Ning have announced to readers of Criti- cal Inquiry that ‘‘theory is alive and well in China 1 They report from Beijing My thanks to the roundtable arranged by Gaurav G. Desai for the MLA Discussion Group on Postcolonial Studies...

... Inquiry Symposium’’ W. J. T. Mitchell and Wang Ning have announced to readers of Criti- cal Inquiry that ‘‘theory is alive and well in China 1 They report from Beijing My thanks to the roundtable arranged by Gaurav G. Desai for the MLA Discussion Group on Postcolonial Studies in Literature...

.... Bennett, David, ed. Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Britton, Celia M. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance...

..., with a particular emphasis on print culture and postcolonial theory. He has published essays in Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-­Century Studies, Etudes irlandaises, and SubStance. His first book, Technologies of Empire (2013), explores the ways eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century­ authors use...

... anthologies—­Williams and Chrisman’s Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial­ Theory (1994), Mongia’s Contemporary Postcolonial Theory (1996), Social Text’s Dangerous Liai- sons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (1997)—nor does it appear in the index of introductions like Ashcroft, Griffiths...

... variously through the writings of thinkers from Antonio Gramsci to Louis Althusser.” Postcolonial theory has influenced medieval studies, as it reveals how the category of “medieval” constitutes an area-studies northwestern European geography. European Marxist discourse sometimes ignores the pluralistic...

... philosopher Brajendra- nath Seal, Mukherjee prefigured key themes of contemporary colonial his- toriography and postcolonial theory—the intimacy between colonial power/ knowledge, the ideological moorings of teleological assumptions, the denial of coevalness and the like—by over half a century. It was, he...

.... 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...