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Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe

2018-08-31 Political Science
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Release : 2018-08-31
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe by : Sandra Ponzanesi

Download or read book Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe written by Sandra Ponzanesi. This book was released on 2018-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial intellectuals have engaged with and deeply impacted upon European society since the figure of the intellectual emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Yet a critical assessment and overview of their influential roles is long overdue, particularly in the light of contemporary debates in Europe and beyond. This book offers an innovative take on the role of intellectuals in Europe through a postcolonial lens and, in doing so, questions the very definition of "public intellectual," on the one hand, and the meaning of such a thing as "Europe," on the other. It does so not only by offering portraits of charismatic figures such as Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, and Hannah Arendt, among others, but also by exploring their lasting legacies and the many dialogues they have generated. The notion of the ‘classic’ intellectual is further challenged by bringing to the fore artists, writers, and activists, as well as social movements, networks, and new forms of mobilization and collective engagement that are part of the intellectual scene.

Provincializing Europe

2009-06-05 History
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Release : 2009-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Provincializing Europe by : Dipesh Chakrabarty

Download or read book Provincializing Europe written by Dipesh Chakrabarty. This book was released on 2009-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.

Postcolonial Transitions in Europe

2015-12-14 Political Science
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Release : 2015-12-14
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Transitions in Europe by : Sandra Ponzanesi

Download or read book Postcolonial Transitions in Europe written by Sandra Ponzanesi. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europe’s colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions

The Postcolonial Gramsci

2012-07-26 Political Science
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Release : 2012-07-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Gramsci by : Neelam Srivastava

Download or read book The Postcolonial Gramsci written by Neelam Srivastava. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the central role assigned by Gramsci to culture and literature in the formation of a truly revolutionary idea of the national—a notion that has profoundly shaped the thinking of both Frantz Fanon and Edward Said. Gramsci, as Iain Chambers has argued, has been instrumental in helping scholars rethink their understanding of historical, political, and cultural struggle by substituting the relationship between tradition and modernity with that of subaltern versus hegemonic parts of the world. Combining theoretical reflections and re-interpretations of Gramsci, the scholars in this collection present comparative geo-cultural perspectives on the meaning of the subaltern, passive revolution, hegemony, and the concept of national-popular culture in order to chart out a political map of the postcolonial through the central focus on Gramsci.

The Postcolonial Orient

2014-05-08 Political Science
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Release : 2014-05-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Orient by : Vasant Kaiwar

Download or read book The Postcolonial Orient written by Vasant Kaiwar. This book was released on 2014-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.

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