Beyond Postcolonial Theory

✍ Scribed by E. San Juan Jr. (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. The testimonies and signifying practices of Rigoberta Menchu, C.L.R. James, various "minority" writers in the United States, and intellectuals from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are counterposed against the dogmas of contingency, borderland nomadism, panethnicity, and the ideology of identity politics and transcultural postmodern pastiche. Reappropriating ideas from Gramsci, Bakhtin, Althusser, Freire, and others in the radical democratic tradition, San Juan deploys them to recover the memory of national liberation struggles (Fanon, Cabral, Che Guevara) on the face of the triumphal march of globalized capitalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Interrogations and Interventions: Who Speaks for Whom?....Pages 21-52
Postcolonial Theory versus the Revolutionary Process in the Philippines....Pages 53-81
“Unspeakable” Subalterns: Lessons from Gramsci, El Saadawi, Freire, Silko....Pages 83-112
The Multicultural Imaginary: Problematizing Identity and the Ideology of Racism....Pages 113-154
Revisiting an “Internal Colony”: U.S. Asian Cultural Formations and the Metamorphosis of Ethnic Discourse....Pages 155-193
Globalization, Dialogic Nation, Diaspora....Pages 195-226
Beyond Postcolonial Theory: The Mass Line in C. L. R. James’s Works....Pages 227-250
Imagining the End of Empire: Emergencies and Breakthroughs....Pages 251-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-325

✦ Subjects

Development Policy; Literature, general; Cultural Studies; Imperialism and Colonialism; Terrorism and Political Violence; Political Philosophy