Beyond Postcolonial Theory

by San Juan, Epifanio; Juan, E. San

• ISBN13: 9780312174262
• ISBN10: 0312174268
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. The testimonies and signifying practices of Rigoberta Menchu, C.L.R. James, various "minority" writers in the United States, and intellectuals from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are counterposed against the dogmas of contingency, borderland nomadism, panethnicity, and the ideology of identity politics and transcultural postmodern pastiche. Reappropriating ideas from Gramsci, Bakhtin, Althusser, Freire, and others in the radical democratic tradition, San Juan deploys them to recover the memory of national liberation struggles (Fanon, Cabral, Che Guevara) on the face of the triumphal march of globalized capitalism.

Author Biography

E. San Juan Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
1. Interrogations and Interventions: Who Speaks for Whom?	21	(32)
2. Postcolonial Theory versus the Revolutionary Process in the Philippines	53	(30)
3. "Unspeakable" Subalterns: Lessons from Gramsci, EI Saadawi, Freire, Silko	83	(30)
4. The Multicultural Imaginary: Problematizing Identity and the Ideology of Racism	113	(42)
5. Revisiting an "Internal Colony": U.S. Asian Cultural Formations and the Metamorphosis of Ethnic Discourse	155	(40)
6. Globalization, Dialogic Nation, Diaspora	195	(32)
7. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: The Mass Line in C. L. R. James's Works	227	(24)
8. Imagining the End of Empire: Emergencies and Breakthroughs	251	(24)
Notes	275	(11)
Bibliography	286	(29)
Index	315