Post Colonial Orient, The: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe : Historical Materialism, Volume 68

In this far-reaching and insightful work, Vasant Kaiwar analyzes the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies. Kaiwar mobilizes Marxism to demonstrate that subaltern studies is marred by orientalism, and that far richer understandings of Europe’ not to mention colonialism’, modernity’ and difference’ are possible without a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism.

Vasant Kaiwar (Ph.D. UCLA, 1989), Visiting Associate Professor of History, Duke University; founder-editor, South Asia Bulletin and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; and co-editor, Antinomies of Modernity and From Orientalism to Postcolonialism.