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Article: Postcoloniality/modernity: Wilson Harris and postcolonial theory.
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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The continuing theoretical debate over the shape and size, the resonances and the responsibilities, of postcolonialism grows daily more complex. Questions of what might be termed--generalizing--the "local" (an adversarial nationalism, an essentialized concentration on the subject body within postcoloniality, the relationship between the term postcolonial and the praxis of localized politics) are set against the "interstitial" (Homi Bhabha's concept of the "in-between," the rejection of binary oppositions, a genealogical spectrum for the fracturing and flawed nature of colonial discourse and postcolonial articulation). And this example of the local/interstitial is itself an ...