The French feminist Luce Irigaray speaks for many intellectuals when she voices the opinion that “the dominant discipline in the human sciences is now history.” The likes of Saul Bellow and Allan Bloom argued that the Yoruba had never produced a Beethoven, Bach, Goethe, or Shakespeare, but no insult is calculated to arouse as much [...]
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*The Politics of Culture and Knowledge after Postcolonialism: Nine Theses (and a Prologue)
Posted in American Society and Culture, Globalization and Cultural Politics, The Politics of Culture, tagged Edward Said, French academy vs American academy, French exceptionalism, French Law of 2005 on colonialism, Orientalism (1978), postcolonial fatigue, postcolonial scholars, postcolonial studies, postcolonialism, postcolonialism and the public sphere, Subaltern Studies, universalisms on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Postcolonial theory, it has been argued, has run its course. This is the premise of a meeting held recently in Berlin. Some scholars have underscored the importance of poststructural thinkers in the shaping of postcolonial theory; others point, in particular, to the publication of Said’s Orientalism (1978) as the foundational movement of postcolonial studies; and [...]
