What is the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial thought? Can a revolutionary European ideology be an emancipatory intellectual tool in the post-imperial world? Or, in sites where European thought is often treated with suspicion, does it repeat distrusted legacies and epistemologies? This collection is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of this collision. An international cast of contributors challenge the elision of Marxist thought in the debate on what the term "postcolonial" actually entails. The volume is essential reading for all engaged in postcolonial and cultural studies.
Author(s): Crystal Bartolovich, Neil Lazarus
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 300
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
1 Introduction: Marxism, modernity, and postcolonial studies......Page 13
NOTES......Page 29
Part I Eurocentrism, “the West,” and the world......Page 31
I......Page 33
II......Page 38
III......Page 46
IV......Page 53
NOTE......Page 54
I......Page 55
II......Page 61
III......Page 66
IV......Page 70
NOTES......Page 75
4 The Eurocentric Marx and Engels and other related myths......Page 77
Communism – a “world-historical” process......Page 78
A new revolutionary era......Page 82
The Russians in the vanguard......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 90
NOTES......Page 91
5 Karl Marx, Eurocentrism, and the 1857 Revolt in British India......Page 93
The revolutionary, swinish colonizers......Page 95
Towards a new dialectic: the post-Revolt articles......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 106
NOTES......Page 108
Part II Locating modernity......Page 111
I......Page 113
II......Page 116
III......Page 119
IV......Page 128
V......Page 133
NOTES......Page 135
I......Page 137
II......Page 146
III......Page 152
IV......Page 155
NOTES......Page 160
8 Sex, space, and modernity in the work of Rashid Jahan, “Angareywali”......Page 162
NOTE......Page 178
9 Was there a time before race? Capitalist modernity and the origins of racism......Page 179
Capitalism, Slavery, and Racism......Page 182
Winthrop Jordan and Hakluyt’s voyages......Page 187
NOTES......Page 193
Part III Marxism, postcolonial studies, and “theory”......Page 195
I......Page 197
II......Page 200
III......Page 207
IV......Page 209
NOTES......Page 213
I. Points of departure......Page 216
II. “They can be represented; they must not represent themselves.”......Page 218
III. Parzellenbauern of the world, unite!......Page 220
IV. The (postcolonial) desire called...Marx?......Page 223
V. Labor and the subaltern......Page 227
NOTES......Page 231
12 Postcolonialism and the problematic of uneven development......Page 233
I......Page 235
II......Page 241
III......Page 245
13 Adorno, authenticity, critique......Page 252
NOTES......Page 266
References......Page 269
Index......Page 291
