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[ecrea] new publication: Postcolonial intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics

Wed Sep 12 23:07:56 GMT 2018





      NEW PUBLICATION:


      Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed (eds.)


  POSTCOLONIAL INTELLECTUALS IN EUROPE


  Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics.


    London: Rowman and Littlefield International, August 2018, pp. 362

With special interventions by Engin Isin, Gayatri C. Spivak and Bruce Robbins.

Postcolonial intellectuals have engaged with and deeply impacted upon European society since the figure of the intellectual emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Yet a critical assessment and overview of their influential roles is long overdue, particularly in the light of contemporary debates in Europe and beyond.

This book offers an innovative take on the role of intellectuals in Europe through a postcolonial lens and, in doing so, questions the very definition of "public intellectual," on the one hand, and the meaning of such a thing as "Europe," on the other. It does so not only by offering portraits of charismatic figures such as Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, and Hannah Arendt, among others, but also by exploring their lasting legacies and the many dialogues they have generated. The notion of the ‘classic’ intellectual is further challenged by bringing to the fore artists, writers, and activists, as well as social movements, networks, and new forms of mobilization and collective engagement that are part of the intellectual scene.

Preface: Postcolonial Intellectuals: Universal, Specific, or Transversal? Engin Isin

Intervention: Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Postcoloniality, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Introduction: Postcolonial Intellectuals, European Publics, Adriano José Habed and Sandra Ponzanesi

PART 1: Portraits of the Intellectual /

1. Antonio Gramsci and Anti-colonial Internationalism, Neelam Srivastava

2. Talking about a Revolution. C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon, Jamila M. H. Mascat

3. Edward Said’s Enduring Legacy: Disciplining Criticism, Pal Ahluwalia

4. Feminisms of Colour in the Company of Stuart Hall, Yasmin Gunaratnam

PART 2: Reinterpretations and Dialogues

5. Before Postcolonialism: Shakīb Arslān’s Response to Colonialism in the Interwar Years, Mehdi Sajid

6. Hannah Arendt and Postcolonial Thought, Christopher J. Lee

7. Jacques Derrida’s Three Moments of Postcoloniality and the Challenge of Settler Colonialism, Muriam Haleh Davis

8. Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy: Questions of Memory and Cosmopolitan Futures of Europe, Bolette B. Blagaard

PART 3: Writers, Artists and Activists**

9. Salman Rushdie: The Accidental Intellectual in the Mediascape, Ana Cristina Mendes

10. ‘Not Merely in Symbol but in Reality’: Zadie Smith and the Aesthetic of the Intellectual, Jesse van Amelsvoort

11. Anonymous Urban Disruptions – Exploring ‘Banksy’ as Artistic Activist and Social Critic, Tindra Thor

12. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies, Rosemarie Buikema

PART 4: Intellectual Movements and Networks

13. Strange Fruits: Queer of Color Intellectual Labor in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s, Gianmaria Colpani and Wigbertson Julian Isenia

14. Radical Equality and the Politics of the Anonym: A Counter-discourse toward Postcolonial Europe, Sudeep Dasgupta

15. Killjoy Movements, Leila Whitley / 16. Hacking the European Refugee Crisis? Data Activism and Human Rights, Koen Leurs

Afterword: Bruce Robbins

Index

About the Contributors

More info: https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/postcolonial_intellectuals_in_europe/3-156-e19f5d6e-49d9-4611-98bc-f55dc222ee9f

“Here postcolonial perspectives sequence into a heterogeneity of cultural and political practices that rework the archives of the West in another key, critically challenging the continuing colonial formation of the present.”

Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples

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“/Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe /offers a refreshing new set of perspectives on the engagement of intellectuals in questions of colonial history and postcolonial politics in contemporary Europe. Far from acquiescing to the oft-repeated affirmation that the intellectual is dead, the volume displays the reinvention and reinvigoration of intellectual work in the twenty-first century at the same time as it lucidly articulates its ambiguities and tensions.”

Jane Hiddleston, Professor of Literatures in French, University of Oxford

“Ponzanesi and Habed have given us that rare gift in trying times: a wide-ranging and broadly comparative examination of the significance of the work of postcolonial scholars and public thinkers in debates on the various problems that afflict Europe today. Providing us with signposts and fresh research agendas, /Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe/ will prove to be one of the most innovative volumes on the question of postcolonial scholarship in a very long time.”

Ato Quayson, Professor of English, University of Toronto

“This is a fascinating and timely book. Anticolonial Lebanese princes and West Indian revolutionary black Marxists, thinkers like Arendt and Derrida and contemporary social movements, artistic activists and writers like Rushdie stage engaging and often displacing dialogues across the pages of /Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe/. And the “postcolonial intellectual” becomes a prism that allows us to rethink at the same time both “Europe” and “the postcolonial.” Opening up new angles on a politics of liberation in these hard times.”

Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna

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