Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World

Cover
Contents
Introduction to Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century (Tessa Roynon / Elleke Boehmer / Stephen Tuck)
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fighting Words: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World (Dominic Davies / Erica Lombard / Benjamin Mountford)
	Paper Empires: Books and Imperial History
	Going Viral: Global Histories of the Book
	Building Resistance: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World
	Fighting Words: A Postcolonial Reading List
	Bibliography
1 From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s The Communist Manifesto (1848) (Dominic Davies)
	The Manifesto as World Literature
	The Manifesto and Anticolonialism
	The Manifesto and Postcapitalism
	Bibliography
2 Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South (1892): Black Feminism and Human Rights (Imaobong Umoren)
	Anna Julia Cooper: The Early Years
	The Text
	The Post-1960s Reception of A Voice from the South
	Bibliography
3 Ambivalence, Admiration and Empire: Emily Hobhouse’s The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell (1902) (Christina Twomey)
	The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell
	The Reception of The Brunt of the War
	Bibliography
4 W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903): Of the Veil and the Color-Line, Of Double-Consciousness and Second-Sight (Reiland Rabaka)
	Of the Souls of Black Folk
	Of the Veil and the Color-Line
	Of Double-Consciousness and Second-Sight
	Of the Interdisciplinary Legacy of The Souls of Black Folk
	Bibliography
5 Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform (1913): Annie Besant’s Anticolonial Networks (Priyasha Mukhopadhyay)
	Wake Up, India and the Theosophical Anti-Empire
	Falling on Deaf Ears?
	Bibliography
6 Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa (1916): The Politics of Belonging (Janet Remmington)
	The ‘Little Book’ and the ‘Outer World’
	Publication, ‘Peregrination’ and Postcolonial Contours
	Conclusion: The Book and Belonging
	Bibliography
7 Making Freedom: Jawaharlal Nehru’s An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946) (Elleke Boehmer)
	Foundational Texts
	‘Taking Hold of Time’: Calling Out and Identification
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
8 Joseph B. Danquah’s The Akan Doctrine of God (1944): Anticolonial Fragments? (Rouven Kunstmann)
	Fragments of History
	The Genesis of the Book
	The Arguments
	The Ghana Hypothesis
	The Scholarly Community
	Fragments of a Doctrine
	Bibliography
9 The Resistant Forces of Myth: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Men of Maize (1949) (Johanna Richter)
	Introduction
	The Power of Dreams and Myths
	The Book and Its Readers
	Indigenous Form and Fighting Words
	Contemporary Resonances
	Bibliography
10 The Hip-Hop Legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop’s Nations nègres et culture (1954) (Ruth Bush)
	Writing Nations nègres et culture
	Reading Nations nègres et culture
	Cheikh Anta Diop in the Twenty-First Century
	Bibliography
11 Culture in Transition: Rajat Neogy’s Transition (1961–1968) and the Decolonization of African Literature (Asha Rogers)
	Culture in Transition
	Global Sponsors, Government Readers
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
12 Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961): The Spectre of the Third World Project (John Narayan)
	Third World Dreams
	Neo-imperial Nightmares
	Spectres of Liberation
	Bibliography
13 ‘The Match is in the Spinifex’: Frank Hardy’s The Unlucky Australians (1968) (Benjamin Mountford)
	‘For the first time in years a book is demanding to be written’
	How Do You Plead?
	The Long Crossing
	Bibliography
14 Provenance, Identification and Confession in Sally Morgan’s My Place (1987) (Michael R. Griffiths)
	Provenance
	Identification
	Confession
	Bibliography
15 Freedom Fighter/Postcolonial Saint: The Symbolic Legacy of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom (1994) (Erica Lombard)
	The Book
	Freedom Fighter/Postcolonial Saint
	Post-Mandela
	Bibliography
Afterword: Plotting a Postcolonial Course in Fifteen Chapters (Antoinette Burton / Isabel Hofmeyr)
Notes on Contributors
Index