Making a World after Empire

Christopher J. Lee is the author of Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, and Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa and the editor of Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives. He is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College.

* Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Contributors * Introduction Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung Christopher J. Lee * Part One Framings: Concepts, Politics, History * Chapter One The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture Dipesh Chakrabarty * Chapter Two Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission Michael Adas * Chapter Three Modeling States and Sovereignty: Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa Julian Go * Part Two Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes * Chapter Four Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung: Third World Women in the Egyptian Women's Press Laura Bier * Chapter Five Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64 James R. Brennan * Chapter Six Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities G. Thomas Burgess * Chapter Seven Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968-86 Jamie Monson * Chapter Eight Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress Christopher J. Lee * Part Three The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation * Chapter Nine China's Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences Denis M. Tull * Chapter Ten Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse in the Indian Ocean Region after the Cold War Jeremy Prestholdt * Epilogue The Sodalities of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st-century History Antoinette Burton * Select Bibliography * Index