In this timely contribution to debates about the future of
postcolonial theory groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores
the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and
'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics
associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable
implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of
power. The book builds directly on Bongie's Islands and Exiles
(Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent
Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that "may well be the greatest
single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial
studies."
Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the
post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts
alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he
writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical
revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in
our own postcolonial age--an age in which it is increasingly
difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial
resistance from the processes of commodification through which
alone those memories can now be thought.
Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, Friends
and Enemies is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of
postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and
culture, and nineteenth century French studies.
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