Beyond Postcolonial Theory

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

San Juan, E. Jr. Beyond Postcolonial Theory, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 325 pp.

The book under review, as the title itself makes amply clear, offers a trenchant critique of the postcolonial theory. It lays bare the underlying premises of the postcolonial scholarship and unmasks the limitations of its oppositional politics. For the author, any transformative praxis is bound with concrete historical conjunctures. The salient questions of agency and the politics of difference and identity cannot be posed in a total vacuum. Paradoxically enough, the orthodox postcoloniality elides the ...

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