The tensions and silences within influential «postcolonial» theories, the majority of which are written and published from locations in the First World, can be explored by opening them to a critica1 dialogue with works of so-called «postcolonial» literature. In many respects, these narratives, which are international in readership yet written in Third World locations, challenge the concepr of «...

and indeEmite categories of social theory" (p. 151), by considering consumption and exchange as well as production, symbolic capital as well as material capital, and the particular patterns of new social movements and resistance in the symbolic as well as the material world. There is much to argue about in these challenging views. Kearney is weakest at tying gender oppression and feminist movem...

in postcolonial studies with the exigencies that led to the founding of this academic discipline itself. Such exigencies arose from recognizing and studying situations of stark inequalities, which were held in place and legitimated by the various machinations of, or inherited from, colonialism. That is, in unpacking and examining hybridity today in some of its theoretical versions as well as sp...

Chiaki Takagi examines modern Japan’s cultural formation from a new theoretical perspective by applying postcolonial theories to modern Japan. The author’s goal is to rethink Japan’s modernity, including its long-lasting ―sengo‖ 戦後 (postwar) period, by examining the works of Murakami Haruki 村上春樹. His works suggest that postwar Japanese society has been informed by a peculiar version of coloniza...

This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the “customary” in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieft...