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Volume 35: Issue 2
Die verdammten der Erde schlagen zurück — Postcolonial studies nach 9/11: Vom konsensuellen zum konfliktuellen Dialog
Author:
Thorsten Schüller Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Philosophicum Romanisches Seminar Jakob-Welder-Weg 18 D-55099 Mainz Deutschland

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Pages:
135–146
Online Publication Date:
28 Oct 2008
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2008
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-008-4010-x
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Abstract  

The events of September 11th have had a deep impact on theoretical discourses. A reality marked by conflicts challenges the widely debated postcolonial theories which for a long time have described cultural contact in conciliatory, consensual terms as “hybridity” or “Third Space”. In the wake of this paradigm shift there has been a renaissance of antagonistically organized concepts such as Huntington’s “clash of civilization”, long considered obsolete. The rhetorical patterns of Franz Fanon, a forgotten founder of postcolonial studies, have also experienced a revival in the daily press since 9/11. In this sense the terrorist attacks are seen as the answer of the “wretched of the earth” to globalization. The recourse to Fanon’s metaphors highlights how far the canonized postcolonial theories of Said, Bhabha and Spivak are removed from their subject and how, due to their “fashionable” status, they have gained a problematic momentum. It also implicitly questions the purpose of theories in general.

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1588-2810

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