Introduction

Keshab ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
John A. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bengal Renaissance

This chapter argues that Keshab Chandra Sen’s worldview was shaped by the cultural, intellectual and religious traditions of both India and Britain. It situates the study in the context of current scholarship concerning new imperial history, histories of identity and subjectivity, postcolonial studies and subaltern studies. It sets out the methodological and theoretical framework of the book, with particular reference to discourse analysis, theories of identity and subjectivity, postcolonial theory, liberalism and universalism. It provides a brief biographical introduction to Keshab Chandra Sen and argues that he is a significant and neglected figure in the history of Bengal and the Bengal renaissance.

Transimperial History - Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hedinger ◽  
Nadin Heέ
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Empire Studies ◽  
Shed Light

Transimperial History – Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition This Forum article argues that a turn in empire history is needed, one which we label «transimperial». Whereas national history has been transnationalized in recent decades, the history of empires has, by and large, remained nationalized. Since transnational history, global history, postcolonial studies and new imperial history all offer an abundance of tools to tear down imperial borders and deconstruct nationalized narratives, the moment seems to have come for a shift, namely for what we call a transimperial approach to imperial history. We seek to show how such an approach makes it possible to dynamize and decentralize the history of empires both on the level of empirical research and historiographical narratives. By including marginalized empires we offer a way to overcome British centrism of empire studies. On the methodological level, this contribution seeks to discuss imperial competition, cooperation and connectivity not as separate phenomena but as entangled processes. The point is not to analytically isolate cooperation or competition but to shed light on how they reinforced each other and how connectivity plays into this. The article shows that a key to establishing a transimperial approach is to consider time and space together by focusing on the transformative aspect of competition, cooperation and connectivity in spaces in-between empires. In this article, we highlight transimperial histories avant la lettre, on which such an approach can rely. Finally, we discuss how this approach helps challenge essentializing master narratives in empire studies, be it the one in which the British Empire serves as a model for other empires or the one where the Japanese empire is seen as a mimicry of European imperialism.

Colonial History and Historiography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Albane de Suremain
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Military History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Cultural Hybridization ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Second World

The colonial condition in Africa has been revisited by all of the main historiographic currents of thought, from a heroizing, highly political and military history of colonization primarily considered from the colonists’ standpoint, to a much more complex and rich history integrating the colonized perspective. This history has been enhanced by contributions from Postcolonial Studies and Subaltern Studies as well as from New Imperial History and perspectives opened by its global interconnected history. At the intersection of these issues and methods, colonial studies offers an innovative reinterpretation of various facets of colonial Africa, such as the factors and justifications for colonial expansion; conquests and colonial wars; processes of territorial appropriation and border demarcation; and the organization and control of the colonies. In these fundamentally inegalitarian societies, accommodation and social and cultural hybridization processes were also at work, as well as multiple forms of resistance or subversion that paved the way for African states to win their independence. In addition to the role played by the First and Second World Wars, the emergence of nationalist and separatist movements helps to clarify the multifaceted nature of these independences, when approached from a political as well as a cultural and social perspective, while questioning the durability of the legacy of the colonial phase in African history.

scholarly journals Análisis del discurso y ensayo literario: El sujeto enunciador en El laberinto de la soledad

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Karina Alanís Flores
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

In this paper we use the discourse analysis as theoretical framework to discuss the renowned Octavio Paz’s essay, The labyrinth of solitude. Although there are many studies that have been made about this theme which are mainly based on the history of ideas and the philosophy of the culture, in this case we propose a different perspective which focuses on the linguistic features that are used to construct the subject of enunciation in the literary essay. We consider Émile Benveniste’s concepts of his theory of enunciative operations in order to reveal the different positions that the author takes in the text, as well as how he constructs his reader.

scholarly journals Book Review: Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Editorial Board Member ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Encounter

The second edition of Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (2019) updates the 1998 first edition. Routledge Publishers hailed the first edition as “a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies”. John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University since 2014, Leela Gandhi has been researching the cultural history of the Indo-British colonial encounter. As a renowned scholar on transnational literatures, postcolonial theory and ethics, she is the founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies and editorial board member of Postcolonial Text. Her position as director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and her research on intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are part of her varied and important contributions.

Postcolonial theories from the Global South

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Manfred Liebel
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Liberation ◽  
Basic Ideas

This chapter outlines the basic ideas of postcolonial theory and presents some of the most important contributions from Africa and Latin America. It introduces different currents of postcolonial theory known as Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Southern Theory, Philosophy of Liberation, Ethnophilosophy, Coloniality of Power, Coloniality of Knowledge, De-Coloniality/Decolonization, Epistemology of the South or Ubuntu, and discusses their significance for the analysis of childhoods in the Global South. Although postcolonial thought has not taken children and childhoods into consideration, the chapter takes it up in order to acquire a better understanding of children in their respective living contexts and their potentials for action, by which childhoods are placed more precisely in their historical and geopolitical contexts.

Psychoanalytical Theory in Postcolonial Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Project

This article deals with some earlier applications of psychology for the analysis of the colonial condition offered by three thinkers—Octave Mannoni, Frantz Fanon and recent applications of Freudian psychoanalytical theory in the poststructuralist approach of Homi K. Bhaba. An attempt is made to compare their standpoints and reflect more broadly on what their implications mean for the future of psychoanalysis’ place in postcolonial critique. Also to answer a vital question in the theoretical project of postcolonial studies: Is psychoanalysis a universally applicable theory for psychic disruption in the colonial context? What are differences in the application of psychological theory for studies of colonial discourse? The conclusion of the paper is: Despite the problematic inheritance of racializing thinking psychoanalysis has proved to be an important and reoccurring methodology in colonial critique and postcolonial theory. Nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize that psychoanalysis itself is a colonial discipline and must become an object of colonial discourse analysis.

When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies†

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Raka Shome
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media History ◽  
The North ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Object ◽  
The North Atlantic

AbstractThis article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that have not received any place in media history. Nor are they recognized as a media object. The basic questions that this article raises are: (a) what happens to our understanding of media’s development when we complicate the temporality (North Atlantic Western) through which we narrate the history of media, and (b) What happens to our understanding of what media is when 24/7 electrification is not taken as a norm in our recognition of a media or technology object. What other media objects and mediated lives might then become visible?

Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-249
Author(s):  
Christopher Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Interpretation

This field review provides a critical interpretation of Vivek Chibber’s generative polemic, Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Capitalism.1 Situating Chibber’s work within a long history of Marxist critiques of postcolonial theory, as well as within an even longer interdisciplinary debate over method catalyzed but not caused by poststructuralist thought, this review argues that Chibber fails to articulate an adequately materialist account of capitalism in the colonial and postcolonial world. It then examines recent initiates of scholars of postcolonial studies to develop materialist methodologies in the wake of poststructuralism’s disciplinary hegemony.

Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Colonialism

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Sinan Birdal
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Constructivist Approaches ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Exclusive Focus

International relations theory has much to gain from studying ethnicity, nationalism, and colonialism. Research on nationalism has produced important theoretical contributions to constructivist approaches in international relations. Similarly, postcolonial theory can contribute to international relations theory by exploring aspects of identity construction that are neglected in studies with exclusive focus on Western states. For example, postcolonial theory can be used in the study of ethnic conflict by combining both aspects of identity construction and strategizing, and how research on ethnicity and nationalism and postcolonial studies can benefit from closer dialogue. Moreover, postcolonial studies raise important epistemological and normative questions that need to be taken seriously by international relations scholars. Postcolonial and subaltern studies question the knowledge claims made by area studies by criticizing their representational strategies of colonialism and the postcolonial situation. They pose a challenge for international relations as a discipline by questioning the knowledge–power nexus. They assert that the presumably “scientific” accounts of the non-West carry the ideological baggage of colonialism. What is needed therefore is to account first for the historical representation of the non-West in Western scientific discourse and produce a critique of this knowledge system as a legitimating and administrative discourse in the service of colonialism.

Postcolonial memories and lusophone literatures

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
PAULO DE MEDEIROS
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Limited Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Portuguese Literature ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism

By focusing almost exclusively on the circumstances of British colonialism, postcolonial theory has failed to take into consideration other histories of colonization and other forms of postcoloniality. By considering a few elements from the history of Portuguese colonialism and a few lusophone texts, it is my hope to demonstrate what I consider to be a limited perspective on postcolonial studies, at the same time that one may also ponder the fact that so much in postcolonial literature depends precisely on acts of remembrance. Ruins, all sorts of ruins, form a privileged space for the construction of postcolonial memories and in this essay I will focus especially on one kind, the shipwreck, as a special figure for varied postcolonial memories. In the process, I hope to also make a case for the reconsideration of European literature, via the example of Portuguese literature, from a postcolonial point of view. Germano Almeida's novel, O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno (1991) and its film version, de-emphasize cultural hegemony and the dichotomy between colony and metropolis. The legacy of Portuguese tradition remains complex.

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