Turning European critical weapons against Europe predates postcoloniality.
Evidence
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? … Post-colonial intellectuals are in any case said both to be outside Western cultural tradition and to have an even better command of the weapons of European critical thought; their real distinction is that they turn these weapons against their own tutors. … No one in rhe past, during the colonial period, apparently did that! Criticism of the most fundamental aspects of Europe through criticial methods learned initially in the European institutions was, one would have thought, a favourite pastime of a great many communists and nationalists in the colonial period. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 863
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Empire’s logic inverted from postcolonial reckoning to preemptive global strike — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1871; Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 182; European fascism returned colonial violence back upon the European bourgeoisie — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 20 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Empire’s logic inverted from postcolonial reckoning to preemptive global strike
#contradicts(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1871 - Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself
#exemplifies(0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 182 - European fascism returned colonial violence back upon the European bourgeoisie
#complicates(0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 20