In a trenchant and famous critique of Edward Said to which I have previously alluded, the Marxist scholar Aijaz Ahmad drew attention to what he described as postcolonialism’s fetish with the idea of exile. Ahmad had in mind the fact that the most compelling figures in Said’s intellectual landscape – among them Conrad, Adorno, Auerbach, [...]
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*Thesis Seven: The Geography and Psychogeography of Home
Posted in Global Politics, Politics of Knowledge Systems, Postcolonial Thought, The Politics of Culture, tagged Aijaz Ahmad, Cochin Jews, creation of state of Israel, Edward Said, exile and modern culture, exiles, identity politics, immigrants, India's Jewish communities, Indian Jews in Israel, intellectual emigres, majorities and minorities, modern political arithmetic, Nathan Katz, postcolonialism and the idea of home, psychogeography of home, Samuel Hallegua on March 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
