· 2018· Book chapter
The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism
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Short summary
This paper argues that 'Third World criticism' has become a 'postcolonial aura,' losing its critical edge and becoming integrated into global capitalism's hegemonic ideology.
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Key points
- Third World criticism has evolved into a 'postcolonial aura,' signifying its integration into global capitalism.
- This transformation diminishes its capacity as a liberating ideology.
- The paper examines the reconfiguration of global relations and the impact of flexible production on culture.
- It questions the nature of history within postcolonial criticism.
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Abstract
Postcoloniality and the perspective of history culturalism as hegemonic ideology and liberating practice the postcolonial aura - Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism the global in the local Chinese history and the question of orientalism there is more in the Rim than meets the eye - some thoughts on the Pacific idea three worlds or one, or many? - the reconfiguration of global relations under contemporary capitalism postcolonial or postrevolutionary? - the problem of history in postcolonial criticism the postmodernization of production and its organization - flexible production, work and culture the past as legacy and project - postcolonial criticism in the perspective of indigenous historicism.
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