Postcolonialism and Political Theory
Nalini Persram, "Postcolonialism and Political Theory "
English | ISBN: 0739116673 | 2007 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1201 KB
English | ISBN: 0739116673 | 2007 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1201 KB
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.
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