A patriotic intelligentsia trapped between imported theory and indigenist nostalgia cannot realize anti-imperialism.
Evidence
The issue he finally raises is that of agency. To what extent can even the patriotic section of the bourgeois intelligentsia, divided as it is between metropolitan theorizations and idealized indigenisms, fulfil the tasks of the very anti-imperialism it so stridently preaches? Through what location, affiliation, praxis? — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 480
Categorization
- SEED: The divided-intelligentsia dilemma is a live angle for an essay on postcolonial intellectual formations in the Global South today.