- See R. Radhakrishnan, "Towards an Effective Intellectual· Foucault or Gramsci?" in Diasporic Mediations.
- Bhabha's , Homi . 1994 . “ essay on Fanon, "Interrogating Identity: Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial Prerogative," ” . In The Location of Culture , London and New York : Routledge . Fanon's statement occurs in Black Skin, White Masks, translated by Charles Markmann (1952, New York: Grove Press, 1967), 31. For more on a poststructuralist elaboration of Fanon, see
- Lazarus , Neil . 1999 . Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World , New York : Cambridge University Press . for a vigorous disagreement with Bhabha's rendition of Fanon. See also
- Hussein's , Ibish . “ doctoral thesis on "The Ethical Dilemmas of the Postcolonial Intellectual," ” . 2001 Amherst : Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts .
- R. Radhakrishnan, "The Use and Abuse of Multiculturalism."
- Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk makes the famous declaration that Europe too is part of his intellectual-aesthetic formation.
- Ghosh . The Shadow Lines , 29
- Derrick , Jacques . 1998 . Monolingualism of the Other: or, Prosthesis of Origin , Edited by: Mensah , Patrick . 7 Stanford : Stanford University Press . For an interesting use of Derrick's formulation in the context of Indian nationalism and secularism, see Satish Kolluri's doctoral dissertation, Department of Communication Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001
- Prashad , Vijay . 2000 . The Karma of Brown Folk , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Without a doubt, the reference here is to the category of "double-consciousness" as articulated by Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). For an interesting application of Du Bois to the South Asian context, see
- 1982 . The idea of "traveling theory" was initiated by Edward Said in his essay of the same tide, initially published in Raritan . 1 (3) Winter : 41 – 67 . , and republished as a chapter in his book,
- 1984 . The World, the Text, the Critic , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
- 1992 . Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . is a persuasive historical-theoretical rendition of the double-conscious African-American condition vis-à-vis modernity.
- Said , Edward . 1986 . "Intellectuals in the Postcolonial World," . Salmagundi , 70-71 Spring-Summer : 44 – 81 .
- Derrick , Jacques . 2002 . Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg , 11 – 40 . Stanford : Stanford University Press .
- I am reminded here of Amitav Ghosh's crisp and persuasive rejection of the very category of "Commonwealth Literature" for the simple reason that the kind of world where this category made sense does not exist any more.
- Dirlik , Arif . 2000 . "Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History," . Rethinking Marxism1 , 2 (4) Winter For more on Eurocentrism, post-Eurocentrism and their relationship to globalization, see
- Radhakrishnan , R. 2002 . "We are the World, but Who are We, and How do We Know?" . Rethinking Marxism , 12 (4) Winter
- The "voyage within" is a concept that Edward Said develops in one of the chapters in Culture and Imperialism.
- Ernst Renan's essay "What is a Nation?" makes conceptual connections between the making of a nation and willed patterns of remembering and forgetting.
- Radhakrishnan , R. 2003 . "The Use and Abuse of Multiculturalism," ” . In Theory in an Uneven World , Oxford : Blackwell . For more on this, see , forthcoming
- Robbins , Bruce , Cheah , Pheng and the Social Text Collective staif , eds. 1998 . Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation , University of Minnesota .
- 1997 . Tim Brennan, At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
- Nixon , Rob . 1992 . London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin , New York : Oxford University Press .
- Radhakrishnan , R. 1995 . "Towards an Eccentric Cosmopolitanism," . Positions ,
- Ghosh , Amitav . 1988 . The Shadow Lines , Delhi : Ravi Dayal Publisher .
- Said , Edward . 1993 . Culture and Imperialism , New York : Knopf .
- Chatterjee , Partha . 1993 . "Nationalism as a Problem in the History of Ideas," ” . In his Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . [1986])
- Radhakrishnan , R. 1996 . Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press .
- Ghosh . The Shadow Lines , 21
- Radhakrishnan , R. 2001 . "Globalization, Desire, and the Politics of Representation," . Comparative Literature , Fall : 315 – 32 . For more on "imagining with precision," see
- Mignolo , Walter . 2000 . Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking , 89 Princeton : Princeton University Press . Part II "I Am Where I Think."
- Rushdie , Salman . 1988 . The Satanic Verses , New York : Viking/Penguin .
- Judith Butler among others, such as Zizek, has intervened powerfully in unpacking the master-slave dialectic. See in particular, her The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford Stanford University Press, 1997).
- Nandy , Ashis . 1992 . "Notes Towards a Third World Utopia," ” . In Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias pelhi: , Oxford University Press .
- 2000 . Dipesh Chakrabarty in one of the chapters of his book, Provincializing Europe , Princeton : Princeton University Press . The concept of the "adda" as social space is developed brilliantly by
- Ibid.
- Jacques Derrick, in his book, Dissemination, translated by Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), deals with the theme of the materiality of writing and the valorization of writing by the king who himself cannot write.
- Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World.
- 1986 . Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Decolonizing the Mind , London : James Curry .
- 1986 . Ngugi's novel A Grain of Wheat , London : Heinemann . is a memorable depiction of the poisoned moment of independence: both liberation and mourning.
- Bhabha , Homi K. , ed. 1990 . "Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation," ” . In Nation and Narration , New York : Routledge . Homi Bhabha has been quite brilliant in the way he has developed notions of pedagogical authority and the performative in the shaping of national consciousness in his essay,
- Spivak , Gayatri Chakravorty . 1987 . "Deconstructing Historiography," ” . In her book, In Other Worlds , London : Methuen .
- Ibid.
- Spivak , Gayatri Chakravorty . 1988 . "Can the Subaltern Speak?" ” . In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture , Edited by: Nelson , Gary and Grossberg , Lawrence . Urbana : University of Illinois Press .
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