Postcolonial inheritances constitute a violent but enabling starting position rather than a clean break

Evidence

GCS: Quite significant because India is a multilingual country. I have talked a lot about the concept of enabling violation. The child of rape. Rape is something about which nothing good can be said. It’s an act of violence. On the other hand, if there is a child, that child cannot be ostracized because it’s the child of rape. To an extent, the postcolonial is that. We see there a certain kind of innate historical enablement which one mustn’t celebrate, but toward which one has a deconstructive position, as it were. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 174

Categorization

• XREF: The doubly-bound ‘enabling violation’ of the postcolonial condition parallels how deconstruction must work from within the very terms it unsettles — resonates with the Foucault counter-history motif. — connects to: Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 467; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178; The postcolonial begins with colonization, not after it ends — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3428 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power. #corroborates (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 467
• The postcolonial condition begins with colonial contact and persists beyond formal decolonization #corroborates (0.82)
• Decolonization transferred colonial corporal punishment apparatus rather than ending it #exemplifies (0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 4514
• The postcolonial begins with colonization, not after it ends #qualifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3428
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178