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  • Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual

  • Ben Etherington
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / January 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 December 2023, pp. 87-94
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  • This essay responds to Timothy Brennan’s recent biography of Edward Said by delving into Said’s relation to Frantz Fanon, who became an important influence in the second half of his career. Particularly, it considers whether Said’s readings and misreadings of Fanon signal a wider break with the latter’s notion of the “colonized intellectual.” Said, it emerges is more an “imperialized” intellectual, whose post-nationalist anti-imperialism is an attempt to sustain the Marxist anticolonial legacy in an era of neo-imperial consolidation. The article also considers how Said’s anti-imperialism is shaped by the idiosyncrasies and unique challenges of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle.

  • Chapter 3 - Daily Decolonization

  • from Part I - Literary and Generic Transitions
  • Edited by Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, Curdella Forbes, Howard University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    14 January 2021, pp 52-67

  • Summary

    This chapter considers poetic expressions during the period of transition from the late colonial to the postcolonial public sphere. It focuses on two exemplary moments in 1943: the publication of the first issue of Focus, an anthology of work by a group of Jamaican writers gathered around the artist and editor Edna Manley, and the moment that Louise Bennett secured a weekly column for her Creole verse in the Sunday edition of the national newspaper, the Daily Gleaner. Considering these two events in the context of the dynamics of the Jamaican literary field, the chapter makes a broader argument about the print culture of literary decolonization. Where previous accounts have tended to place emphasis on the importance of the little magazines that emerged during this period, this chapter argues that it was in the daily and weekly newspapers that we see the aesthetic contests that defined the process of cultural decolonization. Bennett, in particular, was focused squarely on colonizing the colonial print culture ‘in reverse’, as she sought to carve out a decolonial public space at the very heart of the colonial public sphere.

  • 10 - Worlds, World-Making, and Southern Horizons

  • from Part II - Relations
  • Edited by Jarad Zimbler, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
    Published online:
    26 April 2020
    Print publication:
    30 April 2020, pp 168-184

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the critical issues that permeate the discussion of the location and horizon of Coetzee’s literary practice. It starts by noting a polarization among critics between those who characterize his literary project as being a highly localized one that speaks to the condition of South Africa and those who regard his work as being concerned with universal problems and as belonging to ‘world literature’. It delves into this problem by considering the way Coetzee himself narrates the vicissitudes of a writer navigating national and global literary fields in Elizabeth Costello. Looking next at his corpus as a whole, the chapter argues that an appreciation of Coetzee’s peculiar world-making fictional strategies helps us to discern that world (or worlds) to which his fictions seek to orient us. It concludes by considering Coetzee’s recent interest in the ‘literatures of the south’, speculating that his corpus has been concerned to explore through its world-making what it means to live beneath southern horizons.

The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
  • Edited by Ben Etherington, Jarad Zimbler
  • Published online:
    09 November 2018
    Print publication:
    22 November 2018
  • The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.

  • AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT IS DECOLONIZATION? FRANTZ FANON’S THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH AND JEAN-PAUL SARTRE’S CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON*

  • BEN ETHERINGTON
  • Journal:
    Modern Intellectual History / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / April 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 December 2014, pp. 151-178

  • This essay argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of “dialectical reason”, as elaborated in his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960), had a decisive impact on the composition of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). The relationship between the two works has not before received a thorough textual exposition. Such an exposition, it is suggested, also entails revising the view of the nature of Fanon's work that has become entrenched in anglophone scholarship. Instead of a self-grounding theorist who more resembles the postcolonialists who would succeed him, this essay presents a view of Fanon as a situated theorist, drawing on those resources that could best help him to articulate the task at hand. The notion of “dialectical reason” allowed him to break from his previous understanding of decolonization as the attainment of reason through struggle, and see the “praxis” of revolution as, itself, self-realizing reason. To perceive this allows us better to seize on the thinking that guides his discussions of objectification under colonialism, anticolonial violence, and the role of the national bourgeoisie, and, thus, to clear up a number of controversies.