Postcolonialism and political theory

Nalini Persram, Phillip Darby, Enrique Dussel, Alice Feldman

"Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics to turn toward a multiplicity - largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power, and prosperity - constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that reexamine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique postcolonial theory's claim to celebrate...

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