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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a broader exploration of how “other” languages take place in postcolonial theory—not only Said and Spivak's German, but Abdelfattah Kilito's Italian and Frantz Fanon's Arabic. What is the place of translation in self-representation? How do instances of textual citation complicate the self of self...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as the object of critique and analysis. Through a reading of Gandhi and Fanon, the authors argue that anticolonialism, while engaged in a critique of the West, also had a positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda, one that has been taken up in creative ways in postcolonial political thought. Taking cues...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
... backbone for Luxemburg's thought. In the wake of postcolonial, Indigenous, Black, and feminist critiques of the Marxist theory of history, this feature of Luxemburg's work considerably complicates her legacy for contemporary critical theory. [email protected] © 2024 Amy Allen 2024 This is an open...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Vilashini Cooppan Abstract This article considers how time, space, and history are mobilized across a contemporary range of debates in postcolonial studies, world literature theory, and memory studies. The time-maps surveyed all revolve around Eurochronology and its contestations, and range from...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to postcolonialism in the present. The work of translation here does not simply involve introducing a marginal novelty into mainstream critical theory; rather it is a process of exhuming the elements that are untranslatable in the text—that is, the conceptual problems that have universal implications from within...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to a critique of historicism, then to a disavowal of history, on to postcolonial criticism, and ultimately to a cosmopolitical stance. It suggests that Guha's most important contribution to global critical theory is not his historiographical achievements but his unique phenomenology of time. Mobilizing both...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward the implementation of a municipal electoral system ( autarquia ) and argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: the issue of autarky, or the recognition of self-organization and self-sufficiency vis-à-vis postcolonial autocratic rule. [email protected] [email protected]...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). postcolonialism colonial histories epistemology reparations modernity Recent years have seen calls to “decolonize” disciplines and institutions circulate around much of the world. These calls have often been taken...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to be a nostalgic rehashing of an untimely Third Worldism that has lost its political relevance. Certainly, if we consider the dominant statist-nationalist, postcolonial forms that anticolonialism birthed, the foundational arguments made at Bandung in 1955—respect for human rights, the territorial integrity...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the Last Instance .” Critical Historical Studies 7 , no. 2 ( 2020 ): 241 – 69 . Chibber Vivek . Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital . London : Verso , 2013 . Dallymar Fred . “ The Politics of Non-identity: Adorno, Postmodernism—and Edward Said .” Political Theory...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the problem of colonialism had greater appeal in this conjuncture? And more so, say, than other traditions of critical thought on power, race, and colonialism, such as Marxism and postcolonial theory? Interventions emerge in and out of specific political-intellectual conjunctures, but they travel...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 187–232.
Published: 01 August 2021
... without violence, insofar as the indeterminacy of truth and untruth in the postcolony in its relation to the masses requires a decision, a decision that for Fanon also entails something like a struggle over national consciousness, but a decision, however supposedly violent, that is also the effect...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... are woven through this introduction. Several of the essays here emerged from this conference. 1. Benjamin, Illuminations , 247 . 2. Benjamin, Illuminations , 247 . 3. Mbembe, On the Postcolony , 83–84 . 4. I am indebted to Ross Chambers's articulation in Untimely...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 370–398.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the wild capitalist path, is a perennial one in postcolonial East Africa, with examples ranging from the mundane to the existential. Kenyans, a friend once explained, are said to purchase shop goods by demanding nipe (give me), whereas Tanzanians courteously offer the more restrained naomba (I beg...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and truth (as a counter to ideology or power-knowledge regimes) does not exist? Like other contemporary Arabic thinkers of the past century, Amel was committed to rationalism. Further, he understood rationality to be the most fundamental battleground for emancipation in postcolonial societies plagued...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the Global South. 1 Traditional Marxism's opposition to postcolonial criticism should therefore not come as a surprise. In engaging with Said's work, we do find arguments that are worth considering; others, however, call for serious challenges. The first publication of an English translation of parts...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., despite and against its current imprisonment in the apparatuses of neoliberal corporatization. She writes that on the ethico-political register of subaltern and postcolonial literary criticism, “perhaps the literary can still do something. Or perhaps not.” 1 She continues: “That any reader will waste...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . The Wretched of the Earth . Translated by Farrington Constance . New York : Grove , 1968 . Mbembé Achille . Necropolitics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Mbembé Achille . On the Postcolony . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . 1. See...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of postcolonial studies, though through a very specific avenue: National Socialism.” 12 This is significant, since failing to implicate colonial practices of dehumanization, the modes of race-thinking that these produce, and Malthusian techniques of conquest, capitulation, and massacre in setting the stage...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
... parts of the world also saw the occurrence of civil wars that were folded into the narrative of anticolonial struggles, producing new states in places like Vietnam, Korea, and Algeria. The postcolonial moment, which began in 1947 with the independence of India and Pakistan, ended in 1971 when...
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