Kaiwar, Vasant, The Postcolonial Orient. The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2014, 415p.

In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (30 juin 2014). Kaiwar, Vasant, The Postcolonial Orient. The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2014, 415p. IISMM. Consulté le 22 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/pyg5