{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-contemporary-political-imaginaries-for-the-global-present-9780823280070","title":"The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume invokes the \"postcolonial contemporary\" in order to recognize and reflect upon the postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the book seeks to cut across this false alternative and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed from the 1970s to 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism, and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines--history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies-- and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field: universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; politics vs. culture. The essays reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments, doing so under four interrelated analytics: postcolonial temporality; deprovincializing the global south; beyond Marxism versus postcolonial studies; and postcolonial spatiality and new political imaginaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the book's powerful and substantial Introduction through its dozen compelling chapters, \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e will be a landmark volume for reassessing a crucial critical framework for today's world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Vinay Gidwani, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jini Kim Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823280070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJini Kim Watson (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJini Kim Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form\u003c\/i\u003e and editor, with Gary Wilder, of \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Wilder (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gary Wilder is Professor in Anthropology and French in the Graduate Center at City University of New York. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40201457303667,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8de5ee67-9f5b-4b9d-8019-1b840cf6d3be.jpg?v=1656165566","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-postcolonial-contemporary-political-imaginaries-for-the-global-present-9780823280070","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}