Subaltern Silence - A Postcolonial Genealogy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Olson, Olson Kevin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2024
• EAN: 9780231214469
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21446-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Politics & government, Politics and government, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, political science; social science; philosophy