This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent
limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological
assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from
an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a
commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and
culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial
and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory
is a victim of its own success, not least because of the
institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that
these insights no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the
field should address beyond its general commitments. Yet the
renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides
an important opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical
value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and
oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what
postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars
articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores
ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory
might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility,
performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the
shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to
contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform,
postcommunism, and the economic rise of Asia. Finally, they address
the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from
postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary
directions (management studies, international relations, disaster
studies), overlooked locations and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar
Germany, the commons), and the necessity of materialist analysis
for understanding both the contemporary world and world literary
systems.
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