...Philip Balboni; Henry Clements Abstract This article seeks to clarify how scholarship in postcolonial studies and new ontology (the “ontological turn”) has construed the problem of modernity as a problem of translation. Drawing on resources from the field of secular studies, it suggests...

...Ian Baucom The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age ofNatural Science Ian Baucom In the Winter 2009 issue of Critical Inquiry, Dipesh Chakrabarty published an essay entitled "The Climate ofHistory: Four Theses: Widely known as one ofthe leading postcolonial theorists ofhis generation...

...Indrani Chatterjee Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny, and Postcolonial Amnesia in South Asia Indrani Chatterjee Between the second and the eighteenth century CE, a form of political so­ ciety located in the household...

...Indrani Chatterjee Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Kleinberg, Scott, and Wilder’s call for a closer relationship between critical thinking and history writing ( iii .1– iii .10) so closely resonates with my own training in postcolonial Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Universities...

... essay of the same year, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and argues that a stubbornly realist gaze remains blind to the enduring questions of feminist and postcolonial thought. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 critique feminism Denise Riley Gayatri Spivak Over the last two...

...Michelle Stephens Abstract In the early 2000s, Dipesh Chakrabarty powerfully defined the historical terms at stake in the shift from the postcolonial to the Anthropocene era, arguing that the posthuman image of a world without us profoundly contradicts historical practices for visualizing time...

... rurality Liviu Rebreanu Textbook knowledge of postcolonial theory typically posits the emergence of postcolonialism as both a descriptive term and an academic field of study as occurring in parallel to the creation of the Third World at the end of World War II. Chronologically as well as logically...

... ambition to view empire “off-center” has broader aspirations. The forms of colonial amnesia that persist in contemporary scholarship are a case in point. In the case of postcolonial studies, entire histories of empire have been written from the curated viewpoint of British and (to a lesser extent...

... “Asians” and “Africans” as distinct, racialized classes—a differentiation fundamentally linked to the racializing infrastructures of East African colonial states, aimed at barring Black Africans from entering trade while preventing Asians from claiming land. Thus, in a postcolonial context, the mere...

... of Black British intellectuals living, reimaging, and resisting the residual effects of the postcolonial as they too are positioning themselves historically in the present. ■ In the fall of 2018 I had an opportunity to participate in a student-led extracurricular reading group convened by students who...

... —as in the “nature of diasporic thought” and the “making of the diasporic self”—he often has in mind the postcolonial diaspora formed in the movement from colony to imperial metropole. For Hall, diaspora constitutes a domain that emerges from multiple displacements, unresolvable ambivalences, and “impossible...

..., the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 decolonization diaspora postcolonialism cultural studies Black...

... a postcolonial studies commitment to the archive and the rewriting of history, in order to rethink that commitment from the perspective of Palestine. The postcolonial historical project—recuperating silences and absences from the colonial archive, producing novel understandings of colonial regimes...

... Said's ideas to fit theoretical trends he often found wanting. Let me elaborate with two issues in mind.First, by retracing some of the steps Said took in writing Orienta/ism, I want to reprise interpretive frame­ works that have hitherto been ignored or, at least, under-appreciated within postcolonial...

... structures that we speak both within and against. The challenge that “Can the Subaltern Speak?” produced for Patrick Wolfe’s thought is evident throughout his early publication record. Reflecting on this challenge in a 2002 essay-length review of The Critique of Postcolonial Reason , Wolfe refers...

...”), pandemics end. Sometimes, they run their course. Other times, they are contained through miraculous scientific breakthroughs. 6 Historian Kavita Sivaramakrishnan succinctly describes the problem with Rosenberg’s proposal, especially when read from a postcolonial context. 7 She suggests...

... as a watershed or as a "year zero" in postcolonial African and European history, referencing the two histori­ cal shifts and changes in political processes, it also created the impression that these processes were quite compatible, even mutuallyinterdependent in harmonious ways.At the time, however, few if any...

... TheFrenchImperialNation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars in 2005, I sketched out a new research project on the relationship between the French impe­ rial wars of colonial liberation during decolonization in the 1950s, the emergence of "romantic" mercenaries during the postcolonial period...

..., the degradationsof"coolie" indenturedservitude and its links to American slavery, and, by implication, the ironic relationship ofthis history to the politicaldiscourse of"freedom" and "free trade" today. My focus here will be the relation ofall this to the novel's postcolonial allegoricalmethod, which I take to have...

... ofpolitical expediency. As postcolonial nation-states, like India, wrestled with the legacies of colonial policies of divide and rule, along with their own concomitant and oftentimes rocky commitment to minority representation, slave histories ofpre-colonial India receded (literally} to the past. The demand...