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The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Vanaik, Achin(Introduction by)Chatterjee, Partha(Contributions by)Chibber, Vivek(Contributions by)Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty(Contributions by)Warren, Rosie(Edited by)
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Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as 'without any doubt ...a bomb.', and "the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date." It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of postcolonial studies, modernity, and much else. This book brings together major critics of Chibber's work to assess the adequacy of his argument from differing perspectives.

Also included are Chibber's own spirited responses and reformulations in light of these criticisms.

With contributions by Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak, Bruce Robbins, Ho-fung Hung, William H.

Sewell, Bruce Cumings, George Steinmetz, Michael Schwartz, David Pederson, Stein Sundstol Eriksen, and Achin Vanaik.

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Verso Books
1784786969 / 9781784786960
Hardback
320.5
28/10/2016
United Kingdom
304 pages
158 x 238 mm, 567 grams
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