Preface: Postcolonial Intellectuals: Universal, Specific, or
Transversal?
Engin Isin / Intervention: Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered
Postcoloniality,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Introduction: Postcolonial
Intellectuals, European Publics, Adriano José Habed and Sandra
Ponzanesi / PART 1: Portraits of the Intellectual / 1. Antonio
Gramsci and Anti-colonial Internationalism, Neelam Srivastava / 2.
Talking about a Revolution. C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon,
Jamila M. H. Mascat / 3. Edward Said’s Enduring Legacy:
Disciplining Criticism, Pal Ahluwalia / 4. Feminisms of Colour in
the Company of Stuart Hall, Yasmin Gunaratnam / PART 2:
Reinterpretations and Dialogues / 5. Before Postcolonialism: Shakīb
Arslān’s Response to Colonialism in the Interwar Years, Mehdi Sajid
/ 6. Hannah Arendt and Postcolonial Thought, Christopher J. Lee /
7. Jacques Derrida’s Three Moments of Postcoloniality and the
Challenge of Settler Colonialism, Muriam Haleh Davis / 8. Rosi
Braidotti and Paul Gilroy: Questions of Memory and
Cosmopolitan Futures of Europe, Bolette B. Blagaard / PART 3:
Writers, Artists and Activists / 9. Salman Rushdie: The Accidental
Intellectual in the Mediascape, Ana Cristina Mendes / 10. ‘Not
Merely in Symbol but in Reality’: Zadie Smith and the Aesthetic of
the Intellectual, Jesse van Amelsvoort / 11. Anonymous Urban
Disruptions – Exploring ‘Banksy’ as Artistic Activist and Social
Critic, Tindra Thor / 12. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of
European Imperial Legacies, Rosemarie Buikema / PART 4:
Intellectual Movements and Networks / 13. Strange Fruits: Queer of
Color Intellectual Labor in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s,
Gianmaria Colpani and Wigbertson Julian Isenia / 14. Radical
Equality and the Politics of the Anonym: A Counter-discourse toward
Postcolonial Europe, Sudeep Dasgupta / 15. Killjoy Movements, Leila
Whitley / 16. Hacking the European Refugee Crisis? Data Activism
and Human Rights, Koen Leurs / Afterword: Bruce Robbins / Index /
About the Contributors
Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies,
Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The
Netherlands
Adriano José Habed, International Institute of Social History, The
Netherlands
Here postcolonial perspectives sequence into a
heterogeneity of cultural and political practices that rework
the archives of the West in another key, critically challenging
the continuing colonial formation of the present.
*Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at
the Oriental University in Naples*
Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe offers a refreshing new set of
perspectives on the engagement of intellectuals in questions of
colonial history and postcolonial politics in contemporary Europe.
Far from acquiescing to the oft-repeated affirmation that the
intellectual is dead, the volume displays the reinvention and
reinvigoration of intellectual work in the twenty-first century at
the same time as it lucidly articulates its ambiguities and
tensions.
*Jane Hiddleston, Professor of Literatures in French, University of
Oxford*
Ponzanesi and Habed have given us that rare gift in trying times: a
wide-ranging and broadly comparative examination of the
significance of the work of postcolonial scholars and public
thinkers in debates on the various problems that afflict Europe
today. Providing us with signposts and fresh research agendas,
Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe will prove to be one of the
most innovative volumes on the question of postcolonial scholarship
in a very long time.
*Ato Quayson, Professor of English, University of Toronto*
This is a fascinating and timely book. Anticolonial Lebanese
princes and West Indian revolutionary black Marxists, thinkers like
Arendt and Derrida and contemporary social movements, artistic
activists and writers like Rushdie stage engaging and often
displacing dialogues across the pages of Postcolonial Intellectuals
in Europe. And the “postcolonial intellectual” becomes a prism that
allows us to rethink at the same time both “Europe” and “the
postcolonial.” Opening up new angles on a politics of liberation in
these hard times.
*Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory,
University of Bologna*
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