Theory as memory practice

the divided discourse on Poland's postcoloniality

Dirk Uffelmann

pp. 103-124

in: Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind, Julie Fedor (eds), Memory and theory in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

At first glance, the prefix "post" in "postcolonialism"—much as in the case of other "post-isms"—seems to imply a movement backward along the time axis.¹ Jean-François Lyotard and others have, however, pointed out many times that an exclusively temporal notion of "post" drastically oversimplifies the complexity of negation and continuation inherent in concepts such as "postmodernism," "poststructuralism," and so on.²

Cited authors

Lyotard Jean-François