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DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM, Aimé Chsaive ‘Translated by Jan Pink A POETICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM by bin DG. Kaley ® MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS Capit ©1972, 2000 Monthy Review rss Aig Reed inl pals Dic ar eb Pence Ain, Cope £1955 by Eos Pen Acie ary of Cons Ct Pub Dae nite Am. [Discourse alsin El azure on loin Ad Cénig ane by Joan Pala, A pow ofanclnilion / abn DG. ly aS ones A posi oan / Robin DG. Kelly — cou on coil / Aime Cee — Aa itech Al Cie Rese Dept ISBN 15867-0254 (pi) — ISBN [-8867.0246 (et) 1. Galanin 2.Colonie—Afi, 3. Povelnalion. Kaley Rabin DG ‘ats ofamicoslio, IL ThlePaeer of soi I Tie vst cats 200 B53 nnn cc Mon Rew Peat 122 War 7 Se New Yar NY 100 Painted Co {Contents} Robin DG. Kaley ‘A POETICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM ? Aismd Corsre ‘DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISN » Rend Depesre AN INTERVIEW WITH AIME CESARE » Notes os Unsraduson } A POETICS OF ANTIGOLONIALISM Robin D.G. Kelley ‘Airné Césir’s Dieu on Collin might be best described as declaration of war. Iwouldalmosecllitathird world manifesto.” bur hesitate because itis primarily a polemic agains the old order bereft of the kind of propositions and propasals shat generally ccompany manifsus. Yet, Dicoune speaks in revolutionary ca- dene, capiutng the sprit ofits age jst as Mane and Eagels did 102 years eater in their ile manifesto. Fst published in 1950 as iteous sur colnilisme, ic appeared just asthe ld empires were on the verge of elapse thanks in pareoa wold waraganst axiom thatle Europe in material spiritual, and philosophical shambles. Teast age of decolonization and revolt in Affi, Asia and Latin America, Five years cari, in 1945, black people from around the flobe gathered in Manchester, England for the Fifth Pan-Aftican Congest discuss the freedom and future of Alia Five yeas er, in 1955, representatives fom the Non-Aligned Nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, ro discuss thefeedom and future ofthe third ‘work. Mao's revolcion in China was year ol while the Ma ‘Mau in Kenya were just gearing up for an uprising aginst chit colonial masters, The French encountered insurrections in Algeria, “Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon, and Madagascar, and sulfered a humiliating defeat by the Vet Minh a Dien Bien Phu. Revolt was inthe ai India the Philippines, Guyana, Egypt, Guaterals, South ‘Alcs, Alabama, Misisipp, Georgia, Halem, you nameit Revol! Malcolm X once described this exczordinary moment, this lng ‘ecade ffom the end ofthe Second World War w the late 1950s, Dom Colona is indisputably one of the key tet in this "dal wave” of anicolnialIneraare produced dung the posse period work chat include WEB. Du Bots Color and Dermerty (1945) and The Wold and Afice (1947) rant Fanon's ‘Black Skin, White Mask (1952), George Padmore’ Pan-Aficanion or Communism: The Coming Sragle for Afics (1986), Alber Memmi’s The Colomizer and the Colonized (1957), Richard Wright's White Man Lites (1957), Jeao-Pal Sates ex, “Back Or pha” (1948), and joumals uch as Pfc Aficaine and Aficen Revlon Like mich the radial lier produced during this epoch, Dixcourse places the colonial question front and center. is practically invisible, This is a book about colonialism, ‘onthe colonized, on culture, on history, on the very concept of

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