Spectral Nationality

Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

By: Pheng Cheah

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Paperback | 24 December 2003 | Edition Number 1

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This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not altogether dismissive, of the idea of the nation and the related metaphor of the political body as an organism. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. Cheah argues that the widespread association of freedom with the self-generating dynamism of life and culture's power of transcendence is the most important legacy of this tradition. Addressing this legacy's manifestations in Fanon and Cabral's theories of anticolonial struggle and contemporary anticolonial literature, including the Buru Quartet by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's nationalist novels, Cheah suggests that the profound difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world indicate the need to reconceptualize freedom in terms of the figure of the specter rather than the living organism.

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The book offers a coherent argument against inherited theories of "organismic vitalism"...and evinces the literary idiom of postmodernism. Choice Cheah's text is one of those rare occasions where scholarship and political commitment become supplementary to each other. -- Baidik Bhattcharya Interventions Cheah does a superb job in outlining the organic and ultimately cultural forms the struggle for freedom has taken. -- Gregory Jusdanis Research in African Literatures Pheng Cheah traces a constellation of concepts...with confidence -- Matthew Scherer MLN

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Introduction: The Death of the Nation?
Culture as Freedom: Territorializations and Deterritorializations
The Rationality of Life
On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature Incarnations of the Ideal
Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel Revolutions That Take Place in the Head
Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonizaton
Surviving (Postcoloniality) Novel Nation
The Buildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism
The Haunting of the People
The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet Afterlives
The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation
The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture
Epilogue
Spectral Nationality
The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization
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