Reconsidering Reparations By Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

Abstract

enable the pulling together of scholars engaged in social justice-oriented research, whether motivated by class politics or radical cultural work? The World in a Grain of Sand forcefully reminds us of the need for radical universalism and I strongly affiliate with its motivations and its insistence that postcolonial literature far exceeds postcolonial theory. I question, however, whether yesterday’s battlelines against postmodernist theory are helpful in building solidarity – especially when history is pushing people together, regardless of the theories to which they may subscribe.