Postcolonial
Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)
Call for
Papers
Vol. III,
Issue 1, January 2018
In her recently published book, Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and
Re-existence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Madina Tlostanova proposes an
intersection between postcolonialism and postsocialism by foregrounding how the
subjects of the former Soviet Bloc, exposed to the vicissitudes of a
neo-liberal capitalist world order, are experiencing a sense of pervasive
socio-economic deprivation that is accompanied by racial and ethnic
fundamentalisms, growing gender-inequalities and a certain invisibility in the
dominant narratives of the global order where they continue to be subjected to
derogatory stereotyping and systemic erasure – an experience that resembles
that of many subjects in postcolonial states. She argues that “Tricked into
believing that the only legitimate modernity is the neoliberal capitalist one,
we have doomed ourselves to the next twenty-five years of stagnation, catching
up and forever emerging” (7). She therefore echoes the thoughts of Romanian
social theorist Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, who claims that “the post-1989
civilizational promise of Europe and Occidentalism has currently reached a
critical point of saturation in Eastern Europe… Consequently, one is faced
today with the historical task of decolonizing the imaginary and rebuilding
alliances, against the dissemination of cynicism, ethnocentric nationalism, and
postcommunist racism”.
Considering the fact that the problems of
neo-liberal capitalist deprivation, racism and ethnocentric nationalism
continue to be major concerns for postcolonial studies, especially in the wake
of growing xenophobia and Islamophobia in large parts of the world, a proposed
intersection between postcolonialism and postsocialism certainly seems
promising and may even be tied to Ngugi wa Thiongo’s calls for globalism and
globalist social consciousness. Such a consciousness is also seen by Ngugi as a
critique of neo-liberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism at once because
he asserts, “Capitalist fundamentalism generates religious fundamentalisms in
alliance with it or in opposition to it.
But such religious fundamentalism, to the extent that it divides labor
into religious camps, objectively works for and in concert with capitalist
fundamentalism in its Financial Robes”. Exposing these networks is crucial for
understanding either the growth of Hindutva in India or the ISIS in Philippines
or the Christian extremists in Russia. This concerted enterprise, based on the
task of “decolonizing the imaginary and rebuilding alliances” seems
particularly significant in 2017 which marks a hundred years of the Bolshevik
Revolution is Russia which of course had a significant influence on
anti-colonial liberation movements around the world. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura offers a brief glimpse of
this appeal as the text glowingly speaks of ‘the country of hammer and sickle
and electricity’. The eventual disintegration of those ideals and the role of
Soviet Russia as an imperial force in various parts of Asia, most notably
Afghanistan, of constitutes one of the great ironies of history. The
conjunction of postcolonialism and postsocialism might investigate these
ironies as well while being mindful of both resistance and co-existence.
Vol. III, Issue 1 of Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly papers that would
investigate such possibilities and more in an effort to expand critical
horizons while remaining open to the nuances of multi-spatial hermeneutics
within a pluriversal critique.
Possible
topics may include but are not limited to:
Neo-liberal
capitalism and the postcolonial state
Subaltern
resistances and negotiations
The
legacy of 1917 – socialist possibilities in a post-Soviet era
Ethnocentric
nationalism and religious fundamentalism
Revivalist
patriarchies and resistance
Alternate
modernities
Globalectics
and utopian possibilities
Postcolonial
cyberture
Please
send your submissions to postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com within 08 October
2017 in accordance with the following guidelines:
Articles must be original and unpublished.
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A separate cover page should include the author’s
name, designation, an abstract of 250 words with a maximum of 5 keywords and a
short bio-note of 50 words.
The main article should not in any way contain the
author’s name. Otherwise the article will not be considered.
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for which they do not hold copyright.
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