ISBN:
900433503X
,
9789004335035
Language:
English
Pages:
xxix, 376 Seiten
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures volume 191
Series Statement:
ASNEL papers volume 22
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Postcolonial justice
DDC:
810/820
Keywords:
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Literatur
;
Recht
Abstract:
Postcolonial Justice' addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world
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