Embattled grounds: resistance, representation, and the literary landscaping of postcolonial space

Abstract

The political claims that are most urgent in decolonized space are tacitly recognized as coded within the legacy of imperialism: nationhood, constitutionality, citizenship, democracy, socialism, even culturalism. In tlle historical frame of exploration, colonization, decolonization-what is being effediveIJ reclaimed is a series of regulative political concepts, the supposedly authoritative narrative of the production of which was written elsewhere, in the social fonnations of Western Europe.