Subaltern Mythologies
Postcolonial theorists have to stop insisting we choose between the universal and the particular.
Postcolonial theorists have to stop insisting we choose between the universal and the particular.
Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.
Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. His latest book, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, is out now from Verso.