Postcolonial Contemporary (eBook)

lt;b>Jini Kim Watson (Edited By)
Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (Minnesota, 2011).

Gary Wilder (Edited By)
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology and History and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015).

Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Contemporary
Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder

1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions
Anthony C. Alessandrini

2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun and In Another Place, Not Here
Laurie R. Lambert

3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Spectres of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality
Sharad Chari

4. Reading Du Bois’s Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism
Gary Wilder

5. De-provincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar’s Dalit
Anupama Rao

6. The Postcolonial Avant-Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al-Kharrat’s Ethics of Tentative Innovation
Adam Spanos

7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation and, History in River of Fire and the Mermaid Madonna
Sadia Abbas

8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks
Vinay Gidwani

9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in North-West Australia
Stephen Muecke

10. Buenos Aires’ La Salada’s Market and Plebeian Citizenship
Carlos A. Forment

11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city
Peter Hitchcock

12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism
Jini Kim Watson

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index