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Sinified academic Marxism and Arif Dirlik's (self-)criticism of postcolonial studies

Chen, Po-hsi

Inter-Asia cultural studies, 2021-10, Vol.22 (4), p.533-542 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Abingdon: Routledge

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    Sinified academic Marxism and Arif Dirlik's (self-)criticism of postcolonial studies
  • Autor: Chen, Po-hsi
  • Assuntos: 19th century ; Academic Chinese Marxism ; Arif Dirlik ; complicity ; globalization ; Historiography ; Institutionalization ; Marxism ; postcolonial studies ; Postcolonialism ; revolution ; Third World intellectuals ; Universalism
  • É parte de: Inter-Asia cultural studies, 2021-10, Vol.22 (4), p.533-542
  • Descrição: "The Postcolonial Aura," first published in 1994, marks an abrupt shift of Dirlik's research focus from Chinese revolutionary historiography to a critique of postcolonial studies. As the two fields are far apart, so far, few have noticed the continuities between his earlier and later works. This essay attempts to reconnect several motifs that undergird Dirlik's oeuvre by reconnecting his Revolution and History (1978) and The Postcolonial Aura. I propose to focus on two specific points that recurred throughout Dirlik's lifelong concerns: first, the institutionalization of given disciplines; and second, universalism and particularities in the establishment of the disciplines in question. While Dirlik valorized late-1920s and early-1930s academic Marxism, he did not equally commend the institutionalization of postcolonial studies in post-1990s North America. He argued that the latter was the product of Third World intellectuals' entrance in the First World academia. The essay then discusses the relationship between postcolonialism and Marxism in Dirlik's works. Although postcolonial studies repudiates the universalistic pretensions embedded in nineteenth-century Marxism, I note that Chinese Marxist intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s examined by Dirlik in fact championed the Marxian universalism. In sum, I suggest that a combined reading of Dirlik's earlier works on academic Chinese Marxism and his later critique of postcolonialism may shed light on both fields.
  • Editor: Abingdon: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês;Chinês
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