Non-European nationalisms are trapped between romantic primitivism and derivative-discourse dismissal.

Evidence

The problem was how to sail between the Scylla of nineteenth-century European-derived romantic fantasies about umpteen thousand years of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc. nationhood, and the Charybdis of Partha Chatterjee’s splendidly indignant later indictment of all anticolonial nationalisms outside Europe as ‘derivative discourses.’ — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 786

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names Chatterjee’s ‘derivative discourses’ concept and the Scylla/Charybdis double-bind on non-European nationalism — both essential theoretical vocabulary.
• XREF: Chatterjee’s ‘derivative discourses’ directly scaffolds Islamophobia-critique debates about whether Muslim anticolonial nationalisms simply copy Western forms. — connects to: Postcolonial thinkers had to deconstruct Eurocentric prejudices within Marxism itself

Broader Connections

• Postcolonial thinkers had to deconstruct Eurocentric prejudices within Marxism itself #expands (0.75)