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Globalectics Beyond Postcoloniality
Carole Boyce Davies The influence of the theoretical mix of Fanon, Marx and emerging literatures from the colonial world which he identifies in his chapters “The English Master and the Colonial Bondsman” and “The Education of the Colonial Bondsman” retraces the historical moves in literary and cultural decolonization as these related to the political decolonizations that were attempted in that period. But they move as I have suggested elsewhere beyond Marx. [xvi] He recaptures the impact of the various colonizations which led to what he calls “the decolonization of the cognitive process” (42). In many ways the current demise of the “postcolonial state” seems to mirror as well the nature of the postcolonial itself – an incomplete and therefore dangerous project. His chapter “The Globalectical Imagination. The World in the Postcolonial” recognizes the rupture that the postcolonial was supposed to represent and presented a variety of international moves of world literature. Offering therefore a way of releasing literature from the “straight jackets of nationalism” (8) by “reading globalectically” we are able to work through the postcolonial to make theory accessible in an interactive engagement with a variety of literatures worldwide. Derek Walcott ends his poem “The Sea is History” with the following lines: “and in the salt chuckle of rocks/ with their sea pools, there was the sound/ like a rumour without any echo/ of History, really beginning.” [xvi] Carole Boyce Davies. Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke, 2008). Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
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