Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies

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Edited by Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published September 2002, 260 pages, paper

ISBN 0521890594

What is the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial thought? Can a revolutionary European ideology be an emancipatory intellectual tool in the post-imperial world? Or, in sites where European thought is often treated with suspicion, does it repeat distrusted legacies and epistemologies? This collection is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of this collision. An international cast of contributors challenge the elision of Marxist thought in the debate on what the term "postcolonial" actually entails.

Contributors: Crystal Bartolovich, Giovanni Arrighi, Neil Lazarus, August Niztz, Pranav Jani, Benita Parry, Joe Cleary, Priya Gopal, Helen Scott, E. San Juan, Neil Larsen, Timothy Brennan, Keya Ganguly

Contents

Introduction Crystal Bartolovich
Part I. Eurocentrism, 'The West,' and the World
1. The rise of East Asia and the withering away of the interstate system Giovanni Arrighi
2. The fetish of 'the West' in postcolonial studies Neil Lazarus
3. The Eurocentric Marx and Engles and other related myths August Nimtz
4. Karl Marx, Eurocentrism, and the 1857 revolt in British India Pranav Jani

Part II. Locating Modernity
5. Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity Benita Parry
6. Misplaced ideas? Locating and dislocating Ireland in colonial and postcolonial studies Joe Cleary
7. Sex, space and modernity in the work of Rashid Jahan, Angareywali Priya Gopal
8. Was there a time before race? Capitalist modernity and the origins of racism Helen Scott

Part III. Marxism, Postcolonial Studies and 'Theory'
9. Postcolonialism and the problematic of uneven development E. San Juan
10. Marxism, postcolonialism and The Eighteenth Brumaire Neil Larsen
11. Postcolonial studies between the European wars: an intellectual history Timothy Brennan
12. Adorno, authenticity, critique Keya Ganguly.