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Subaltern Silence : A Postcolonial Genealogy / Kevin Olson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, Kevin, author.
- Series:
- New directions in critical theory ; Volume 90.
- New Directions in Critical Theory ; Volume 90
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Can the subaltern speak.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Silence--Political aspects--Haiti--Case studies.
- Silence.
- Haiti--Colonization--Case studies.
- Haiti.
- France--Colonies--America--Administration--Case studies.
- France.
- France--Colonies--America--Race relations--Case studies.
- Haiti--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Subordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Innovations in Subordination: Colonial Public Spheres
- 1. The Sounds of Silence
- 2. Silence as an Achievement: Marronage
- 3. Unsettling Silences: The Perils of Poison
- 4. Phantasmatic Public Spheres: The Paranoid Style in French Colonialism
- 5. Disruptive Object: The Tricolor Cockade and the Fear of Black Jacobins
- Interlude. The Shifting Horizon of Modernity: Placide Camus, Apprentice Printer
- Part II. Postcolonial Transformations
- 6. Times of Exception: Subaltern Silence in the Revolutionary Caribbean
- 7. Revolution Within a Revolution: Postcolonial Liberalism and the Army of Sufferers
- 8. The Force of Farce: Emperor Soulouque and the Art of Racial Caricature
- 9. Silent in Plain Sight: We are All Postcolonial Now
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231560351
- 0231560354
- OCLC:
- 1428902474
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