Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency

Srivastava, Neelam

doi:10.1080/17449855.2010.482382

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“…31 For instance, Fanon saw the anti-colonial violence of the colonized as a means of self-affirmation, and therefore intrinsic to the making of the new human. Gandhi, on the other hand, saw non-violence as a mode of inventing the new human (Srivastava 2010). Others, such as Paul Gilroy (2000Gilroy ( , 2004, have sought a 'planetary humanism' by drawing upon Black thinkers such as W.E.B.…”

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1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

2018

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This book is for K. Narayana Chandran, teacher. Teaching the postcolonial course-for a change!-in the MA program at the University of Hyderabad in 2017 enabled me to think through several of the themes discussed in the literatures that I read, and have found their way into this book in some form or the other. Numerous sections of the book also grew out of several years of discussions with Anna Kurian, drawing upon but also extending ideas in my earlier books and essays on the postcolonial. Finessing these ideas with inputs from Anna was, as it has been for fifteen years now, exhilarating and illuminating. To Anna, again, therefore, unquantifiable gratitude. Nandana Dutta always manages to get me to think laterally, especially on the 'Theory question'. She engages with random ideas I throw at her, on WhatsApp no less, and with considerable gentleness urges me to 'think more'. To her affection, I remain indebted. Friends such as Neelu, Angel, Ajeet, Soma, Ibrahim, Haneef, Josy, Vaishali, Premlata, Walter are not people I meet regularly, and some I haven't met for years: but their solicitous enquiries and good wishes constitute strongly supportive forces. Molly Tarun, a.k.a, Chechu, deserves a special mention for her 'how are you, little one?' (all msgs in perfect grammatical agreement, even on WhatsApp!). To Moumita Chowdhury for furnishing requested journal articles from assorted databases, even at short notice-thank you. The DoE, UoH, as a space of work has been for many years a source of inspiration and shared knowledge-and this may be traced, with no deviations whatsoever, to K Narayana Chandran, whose supply of references and ideas has remained undiminished. To KNC's wisdom and generosity, then, like dozens of people around the world in this profession, I genuflect; for his affectionate support, I express my gratitude. The sounding of the battle-drum is important; the fierce waging of the war itself is important: and the telling of the story afterwards-each is important in its own way. I tell you there is not one of them that we could do without. But if you ask me which of them takes the eagle-feather I will say boldly: the story. (123-4) Achebe, I believe, has stated unequivocally, the purpose of stories and storytelling.

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“…It is a split that speaks of a tension among a people who agree on the need for freedom but disagree on the means. Srivastava (2010) describes this tension as the 'competing ethics of resistance' (P. 303). She adds, 'violence and nonviolence as responses to colonization are seen to be profoundly linked to the contrasting realities of decolonization' (Srivastava, 2010, p.303).…”

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Postcolonial Perspectives of Terrorism in John Updike’s Terrorist and Yasmina Khadra’s the Attack

Mabonga¹

2021

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This study examines the postcolonial concepts of centralization and peripherization as depicted in terrorist by john updike and the attack by yasmina khadra. It also seeks to establish aspects of convergence between the centre and periphery as brought out in the two texts. Most studies within postcolonial framework have interrogated the tension immanent in the relationship between the west and the east in the context of cultural, political and racial subjugation of the former against the latter. However, studies which tackle the phenomenon of terrorism fiction within the postcolonial framework are scanty. This study attempted to fill the gap by investigating the occidental and oriental aspects of terrorism in terrorist and the attack. It also sought to determine elements of convergence in the relationship between the east and the west. The objectives of the study were concerned with examining the occidental perspectives in terrorist and the oriental perspectives in the attack. A third objective sought to explore concurrent elements in the occident vs orient dichotomy. The exploration exposed how terrorist portrays elements of domination and hegemony personified in the occident and how the attack depicts instances of protest and resistance typified in the orient. Within the paradigm of postcolonialism, the study adopted orientalism as postulated by edward said to examine how a dominating framework, the colonizer, exercises power and oppression against the protest and resistance of the marginalized, the colonized. The ideas of homi bhabha and gayatri spivak were also used to investigate the nature of resistance performed by the oppressed. A review of literature showed that the dichotomy of the centre vs the periphery is evident in fictionalization of terrorism hence the rationale for this study. The study relied on qualitative research design. Analysis of content involved a reading of the two texts under study which were purposively sampled. Subsequently, the occident and orient relationship is shown to be belied with power imbalances that occasions tension and conflict. An integrative approach that investigated how the tenuous relationship between the west and east can nevertheless find concurrence was also performed. This study shows that aspects of domination and hegemony are predominant in the occident's perception of the east and its consolidation of the centre. Further, discourse constitutes an integral cog of the western domination and imperialism. But the study also demonstrates that, the orient performs a mix of redemptive initiatives geared towards the resistance and contestation of the colonial discourse. Whereas the discordant nature of the occident vs orient relationship is rife with tension and incongruence, the study was still able to identify components of convergence which ultimately amalgamated the west vs east divide in the analysis of terrorist and the attack. The study concludes, the tendency of the west to ascribe unto itself power and authority of domination can be challenged and contested at...

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“…Rezaul Haque notes, the novel’s named characters who are allowed to speak through dialogue are disproportionately Brahmin, and the only Muslim representatives allowed in this national narrative are portrayed as antagonists and imperial collaborators (2011: 11). However, this does not negate the fact that the narration largely takes place in the first person plural, and the collective narration of events in Kanthapura becomes “progressively more inclusive”, as Neelam Srivastava argues (2010: 312).…”

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“…The boundaries of this “we” become progressively more inclusive as barriers between “untouchables”, lower castes and higher castes of the village are broken down, and by the end of the novel the village is as one. (2010: 312)…”

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The translation of an imagined community in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

Daigle

2017

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson describes how sacred script languages (Arabic, Chinese, Latin) were usurped in political primacy by languages based on the spoken vernacular (French, English, German). In this article I examine one instance of these complications through Raja Rao’s classic novel of Indian independence, Kanthapura, a novel written in Indian English that works both with and against Anderson’s concept of nationalism’s linguistic underpinnings. Kanthapura not only proposes a model for Indian English speakers and writers, but performs a rhetorical argument about the necessity for Indian English if India is to cohere as a nation. I argue that the residents of Kanthapura are “translated” into citizens of the nation of India. This movement of translation is echoed by the language of the novel: the largely spoken language of Kannada is translated into the largely written (in India) language of English. English in Kanthapura performs a double function, unifying the nation as a script language while also reflecting the idiosyncrasies of local regional vernaculars. Kanthapura demonstrates that a nativized form of Indian English can serve as an invaluable tool for the development of a national consciousness, and that novels written in Indian English will play a role in determining the shape and identity of the nation.

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Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

Postcolonial Perspectives of Terrorism in John Updike’s Terrorist and Yasmina Khadra’s the Attack

The translation of an imagined community in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

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