Pub Date : 2021-12-23DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2018774
C. Wirth
ABSTRACT The Philippines celebrates nationalist Jose Rizal as the ‘First Filipino’ who laid the intellectual foundation for the Philippine nation. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for allegedly machinating a revolution against the motherland in 1896. In the historiography, discussions over where to place Rizal on the reform-to-revolution spectrum dominate. This article locates Rizal's often-neglected translation of Wilhelm Tell within his oeuvre, which gives new insight into Rizal's political position: Rizal argued as early as 1886 that after a turning point to which the subject has been pushed by the oppressor, a violent reaction is necessary and a revolution as a consequence thereof is legitimate. To make the translation legible to all Tagalog classes, he pasyonized the text and turned Friedrich Schiller’s Blankverse into Tagalog verses.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-23DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2018775
Rituparna Mitra
ABSTRACT In The Posthuman (2013), Rosi Braidotti offers us a productive triangulation between the Anthropocene, the non-human, and the postcolonial. The post-human condition in the contemporary phase of late capitalism, Braidotti contends, seeks a relationality, a connection with geo/bio/techno environments, that can lead ultimately to an ethical relationship with radical Others. She thus provides a framework to examine precarity and the possible solidarities through which a new ‘post-human' subjectivity and politics may emerge. In this article, I examine Arundhati Roy's novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), arguing that Roy's literary practices consummately carve a space for this post-human subject and its relational politics. The novel's structure, according to Roy, is meant to mirror that of a sprawling metropolis in the Global South, where planned spaces are constantly ambushed by encroachments by the ‘surplus and the unwanted’. The novel thus spatializes both precarity and the embryonic communities that emerge teetering on the porous borders between life and death, human and non-human, abandonment and community. I explore this spatialization through two sites that are central to The Ministry: the borderland of Kashmir and the urban crannies of Delhi - Old and New - where Roy locates affirmative alliances amid death and dereliction.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-23DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2018771
Y. Oh
ABSTRACT This article explores conceptions of cinematic and postcolonial-Anthropocene space in South Korean film director Bong Joon Ho’s transnational films: Snowpiercer (2013), Okja (2017) and The Host (2006). By focusing on Bong’s powerful use of space in science fiction films that articulate the question of the human and nonhuman other, I argue that spatial production has presupposed a self-image of ‘Man’ from the imperialist institution of geography to Anthropocene geology. Bong’s employment of abstract landscapes in cinematic space – the snowy landscape in Snowpiercer, the idyllic Korean mountains in Okja and the Han River running through Seoul in The Host – reflects how post-imperial space extends and transforms the construction of colonial space in the neoliberal age. The question of dwelling and co-dwelling then arises in the alternative imaginaries of multispecies existence in the era of the postcolonial-Anthropocene. Bong’s planetary landscapes thus challenge the framing of environmental problems in any single way and refuse to posit a single kind of humanity. This article urges one to rethink the question of ‘we’ and the meaning of dwelling within the Anthropocene/Anthropocentrism by synthesizing postcolonial and transnational perspectives on space.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2009213
Theoni Whyman, Cammi Murrup-Stewart, Michael Young, A. Carter, Laura Jobson
ABSTRACT The tendency of Indigenous people to direct their frustration and anger, due to oppression, toward members of their own group is known as lateral violence. While settler-colonization is often attributed as the main cause of lateral violence, research has not examined what specific aspects lead to lateral violence in Aboriginal communities. In a qualitative study, using yarning and thematic analysis, 17 Aboriginal Australians (53% male, 47% female) ranging in age from 18 to over 60, discussed what they believed to be the causes of lateral violence. Knowledge holders identified historical and contemporary causes and perpetuating factors of lateral violence, all of which were related to settler-colonialism. These causes included living in a colonial society, native title, access and competition for limited resources, the process of obtaining confirmation of Aboriginality certificate, identity issues and internalized racism, past traumas, and returning back to traditional lands. Settler-colonialism is a structure through which lateral violence was, and is, allowed to flourish. Challenges to the settler-colonial system need to be made to effectively combat lateral violence.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2012872
Jasna Balorda
ABSTRACT This article situates itself in the theoretical space between the field of genocide, and postcolonial studies, advocating for a closer relationship between the two, particularly in relation to the emerging field of postcolonial genocide. The Rwandan genocide is illustrative of this need, as a case which remains firmly rooted in identity categories that have been imposed on the native populations during the colonial era. The article traces the persistence of the colonial racial hierarchies in Rwanda and the role they played in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. It fosters a particularly significant focus on modernity as the symbolic line that divides the imagined racial categories in the colonial gaze, resulting in a crucial impact of nesting colonialisms in the genocidal rhetoric of the late twentieth century. The Rwandan genocidal project contains within it a desire to fulfil the promise of modernity by facilitating the emergence of an ethnically cleansed nation state, while simultaneously rejecting it as the heritage of violence ridden exploitation colonialism. This paradox of ambivalent modernity presents itself both as a crucial characteristic of the Rwandan genocide as well as a persistent rupture in the formation of contemporary Rwandan identities.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1979742
H. Cohen
ABSTRACT Palestinian poets Nathalie Handal and Naomi Shihab Nye deploy nonhuman perspectives to mourn the lost homeland, reflecting on the Nakba (‘the Catastrophe’, the 1948 Palestinian exodus) as a site of environmental and social rupture. Representations of environmental ruptures as means of reflecting on the Nakba are not new to the Palestinian literary tradition. Understanding these ruptures by way of posthumanist appeals is, however, a radical gesture that we can locate at the centre of troubled attempts to merge, or at a minimum ‘converge’, the ‘respective preoccupations of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies’, to use Robert Spencer’s enunciation. Through close readings of the multispecies ecologies deployed by Nathalie Handal and Naomi Shihab Nye, this paper reconciles postcolonial Palestine with posthumanist Palestine, honouring the poets’ compositions of vistas of nonhuman animals and habitats, and studying their experimentation with interspecies kinship.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-04DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1984027
Insurgent Imaginations, Auritro Majumder, J. Elam
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Pub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1996022
Debajyoti Biswas
1. Glora Fisk, Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 2. Michael Allan, In the Shadow of World Literature, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 3. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, New York: Library of America, 1987 [1903]. 4. Pascale Casanova, TheWorld Republic of Letters, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 5. Gary Wilder, Freedom Time, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 6. Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis, London: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1986940
M. Lobo
Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking illuminates refreshing ideas on decolonising governance and inspires careful reflections from four transdisciplinary scholars. I followed the unfoldin...
非殖民化治理:群岛思维阐明了非殖民化治理的新思想，激发了四位跨学科学者的仔细思考。我跟着展开的……
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