{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-contemporary-political-imaginaries-for-the-global-present-hardback-9780823280063","title":"The Postcolonial Contemporary; Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Hardback) 9780823280063","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Imaginaries for the Global Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJini Kim Watson (Edited by), Gary Wilder (Edited by), Sadia Abbas (Contributions by), Anthony C. Alessandrini (Contributions by), Sharad Chari (Contributions by), Carlos A. Forment (Contributions by), Peter Hitchcock (Contributions by), Laurie Lambert (Contributions by), Stephen Muecke (Contributions by), Anupama Rao (Contributions by), Adam Spanos (Contributions by), Jini Kim Watson (Contributions by), Gary Wilder (Contributions by), Vinay Gidwani (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823280063\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.766 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume invokes the \"postcolonial contemporary\" in order to recognize and reflect upon the postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the book seeks to cut across this false alternative and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity.\u003cbr\u003e Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed from the 1970s to 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism, and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present?\u003cbr\u003e In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field: universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; politics vs. culture. The essays reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments, doing so under four interrelated analytics: postcolonial temporality; deprovincializing the global south; beyond Marxism versus postcolonial studies; and postcolonial spatiality and new political imaginaries.\u003cbr\u003e From the book's powerful and substantial Introduction through its dozen compelling chapters, \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e will be a landmark volume for reassessing a crucial critical framework for today's world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Vinay Gidwani, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder \u003cbr\u003e 1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e Anthony C. Alessandrini \u003cbr\u003e 2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand's \u003ci\u003eChronicles of the Hostile Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Another Place, Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Laurie R. Lambert \u003cbr\u003e 3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Spectres of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality\u003cbr\u003e Sharad Chari \u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading Du Bois's Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Gary Wilder \u003cbr\u003e 5. De-provincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar's \u003ci\u003eDalit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anupama Rao \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Postcolonial Avant-Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al-Kharrat's Ethics of Tentative Innovation\u003cbr\u003e Adam Spanos \u003cbr\u003e 7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation and, History in \u003ci\u003eRiver of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethe Mermaid Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sadia Abbas \u003cbr\u003e 8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks\u003cbr\u003e Vinay Gidwani\u003cbr\u003e 9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in North-West Australia\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Muecke \u003cbr\u003e 10. Buenos Aires' La Salada's Market and Plebeian Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e Carlos A. Forment \u003cbr\u003e 11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo\/city\u003cbr\u003e Peter Hitchcock \u003cbr\u003e 12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism\u003cbr\u003e Jini Kim Watson \u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580329357592,"sku":"9780823280063","price":74.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-postcolonial-contemporary-political-imaginaries-for-the-global-present-hardback-9780823280063","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}