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'Here Comes the Rest.' A Sociological Perspective on Postcolonial Rethinking of the 'Second World'

Magdalena Kania

In January 2008 the netmagazine Eurozine reprinted from the French Esprit an interview with Achille Mbembe entitled 'What is postcolonial thinking[1]?' A French historian and theorist, Mbembe suggests that postcolonial thought originates in multiple sources, such as the anti-imperialist tradition, subaltern and globalization

Was Gombrowicz the First Post-Colonialist?

Aleksander Fiut

Witold Gombrowicz viewed himself - not without some justification - as a forerunner of all of the more significant 20th-century philosophical and intellectual trends: he claimed to have been the first existentialist, the first structuralist as well as someone who successfully challenged the theory of nouveau romain. Recently many scholars of the younger generation have proclaimed him a postmodernist writer. Perhaps the time has come to ask whether he deserves also to be considered the first "post-colonialist." There is certainly some basis for answering this question in the affirmative. In the Diary, he often unequivocally stated a preference for the

Postcolonial Europe

'Here Comes the Rest.' A Sociological Perspective on Postcolonial Rethinking of the 'Second World'

Was Gombrowicz the First Post-Colonialist?

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