It has been argued that postcolonial thought only became possible owing to the presence of intellectuals and academics from formerly colonized countries in the metropolitan capitals of the West (or, more narrowly, in the better American research universities). Leaving aside for the moment the critique leveled by Aijaz Ahmed against Edward Said, which (in part) [...]
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*Thesis Five: The Moral and Political Imperative of South-South Dialogues
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- *Günter Grass and the anti-Semitism Canard
- *Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
- *Fast, Counter-Fast, Anti-Fast
- *Ours But To Do and Die: The Culture and Politics of Death in India
- *Journeys of the ‘Black Christ’: Art & Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
- *The Sexuality of a Celibate Life
- *Thesis Nine: The Dissent that is Beyond Dissent
- *Thesis Eight: Postcolonial Thought and Religion in the Public Sphere
- *Thesis Seven: The Geography and Psychogeography of Home
- *Thesis Six: In incommensurability is the promise of more democratic futures
- *Thesis Five: The Moral and Political Imperative of South-South Dialogues
- *Mujhe Tumare Sign Chaiyen: The Act of Writing in Deewaar (1975)
- *Thesis Four – Nonviolence: A Gaping Hole in Postcolonial Thought
- *Thesis Three: Postcolonialism’s critique of the nation-state remains inadequate
- *The Footpath and the Skyscraper: The Pleasures of Deewaar
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