Postcolonialism and Political Theory
Contributions by Lucian M. Ashworth Memorial University of Newfoundland, Phillip Darby, Enrique Dussel, Graham Finlay, Alice Feldman, M.I Franklin, Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon, Hwa Yol Jung Moravian College, E San Juan Jr, John Savage, Joan W. Scott Edited by Nalini Persram
Publication date:
10 May 2007Length of book:
346 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
238x161mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739116678
Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity—largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity—constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that re-examine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique the limits of postcolonial theory and its claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous. Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia.