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OverviewDiasporic, migrant, and/or non-white intellectuals have always played an important role in European societies, at least since the figure of the public intellectual emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century; yet, they have often remained unsung. This volume reengages with influential figures through a postcolonial lens. It does so, not only by offering portraits of 'traditional' intellectuals such as cultivated academics and philosophers, but also by bringing to the fore artists, writers and activists, as well as social movements and new forms of mobilization, who/that belong (and contribute) to the intellectual scene. The book, explores figures of postcolonial intellectuals in Europe and, in doing so, questions the very definition of 'public intellectual', on the one hand, and the meaning of such a thing as 'Europe', on the other. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sandra Ponzanesi , Adriano José Habed, Research Assistant, Utrecht UniversityPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9781786604132ISBN 10: 1786604132 Pages: 362 Publication Date: 11 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsHere postcolonial perspectives sequence into a heterogeneity of cultural and political practices that rework the archives of the West in another key, critically challenging the continuing colonial formation of the present.--Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples Ponzanesi and Habed have given us that rare gift in trying times: a wide-ranging and broadly comparative examination of the significance of the work of postcolonial scholars and public thinkers in debates on the various problems that afflict Europe today. Providing us with signposts and fresh research agendas, Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe will prove to be one of the most innovative volumes on the question of postcolonial scholarship in a very long time.--Ato Quayson, Professor of English, University of Toronto This is a fascinating and timely book. Anticolonial Lebanese princes and West Indian revolutionary black Marxists, thinkers like Arendt and Derrida and contemporary social movements, artistic activists and writers like Rushdie stage engaging and often displacing dialogues across the pages of Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe. And the postcolonial intellectual becomes a prism that allows us to rethink at the same time both Europe and the postcolonial. Opening up new angles on a politics of liberation in these hard times.--Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna Author InformationSandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Adriano José Habed is a doctoral student in Political Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, and the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |