Beyond postcolonial theory / E. San Juan, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juan, E. San, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 325 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, [1998]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Content

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Interrogations and Interventions: Who Speaks for Whom?

2. Postcolonial Theory versus the Revolutionary Processin the Philippines

3. "Vnspeakable" Subalterns: Lessons from Gramsci, EI Saadawi, Freire, Silko

4. The Multicultural Imaginary: Problematizing Identity and the Ideology of Racism

5. Revisiting an "Internal Colony": V.S. Asian Cultural Formations and the Metamorphosisof Ethnic Discourse

6. Globalization, Dialogic Nation, Diaspora

7. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: The Mass Line in C. L. R. James's Works

8. Imagining the End of Empire: Emergencies and Breakthroughs

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-349-61657-5

OCLC:

1084335649