Many colonial-period intellectuals stood outside the Western tradition.

Evidence

There is no sense in their work of men standing outside the Western cultural tradition, however much they think of themselves as articulating the adversarial experience of colonial and/or non-Western peoples. … This may well be true of the individual authors Said cires, bur the generalization which is intended here simply boggles the mind, for it is so obviously contrary to what one knows about numerous intellectuals·of the colonial period who never thought of themselves as ever standing inside the ‘Western cultural tradition’ Nor is one quire sure how Said can later describe Guha squarely as a ‘poststrucruralisr’ and at the same time designate him the examplary ‘post-colonial’ intellectual standing outside the Western cultural tradition; where, one wonders, is that line of demarcation between poststrucruralism and the Western cultural tradition? — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 862

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people; Anti-colonial intellectuals could speak in empire’s capitals but not their homelands — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 134; Western colonial globalization made traditional cultures hybrids, not fixed entities — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 347 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-colonial intellectuals could speak in empire’s capitals but not their homelands #exemplifies (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 134
• Even brilliant, anti-colonial Orientalists produced scholarship rooted in colonial interests #exemplifies (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 855
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people #expands (0.82)
• Western colonial globalization made traditional cultures hybrids, not fixed entities #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 347
• Colonial discourse recasts Western self-government as a capacity Orientals lack #exemplifies (0.80)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• Western values are historically unique rather than universally applicable #expands (0.80)
• For displaced colonial intellectuals, the Left functioned as a substitute home #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1105
• The early New Left united postcolonial intellectuals with provincial British outsiders #expands (0.78)
• Ex-colonial intellectuals shaped the New Left and Cultural Studies from its origins #expands (0.78)