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

      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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