Olson Subaltern Silence

A Postcolonial Genealogy
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56035-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 90

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Subordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Part I. Innovations in Subordination: Colonial Public Spheres
1. The Sounds of Silence
2. Silence as an Achievement: Marronage
3. Unsettling Silences: The Perils of Poison
4. Phantasmatic Public Spheres: The Paranoid Style in French Colonialism
5. Disruptive Object: The Tricolor Cockade and the Fear of Black Jacobins
Interlude. The Shifting Horizon of Modernity: Placide Camus, Apprentice Printer
Part II. Postcolonial Transformations
6. Times of Exception: Subaltern Silence in the Revolutionary Caribbean
7. Revolution Within a Revolution: Postcolonial Liberalism and the Army of Sufferers
8. The Force of Farce: Emperor Soulouque and the Art of Racial Caricature
9. Silent in Plain Sight: We are All Postcolonial Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Olson is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (2016) and Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State (2006) and the editor of Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (2008).