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• W3123081608 abstract "Although the process of nation-state formation has been critiqued by postcolonial theorists, nation-state paradoxically serves the basic unit of postcolonial identity formation and politics. However, the pervasive global consumer culture, in its operating mechanism, is effectively obliterating the physical boundaries between the nation-states and giving birth to deterritorialized, cultural transnational communities. The purpose of this paper is to enquire the effect of transnationalism upon postcolonialism as a discourse-whether the loss of nation-state and the greater and more urgent threat of global consumer culture are making the concerns and the protestations of postcolonialism obsolete, and if so, how and what can be done to reincarnate postcolonialism, which remains a viable tool to resist any totalizing agenda upon lived experiences.Postcolonialism as a paradigm vehemently contests yet paradoxically survives upon the differentiation between the self and the other; the satellite and the metropolis; the periphery and the center; and the colonized and the colonizer. The nation-state is the physical unit of this dualistic model. Nation-state, the hyphenated taxonomy, includes both the territorial and the idealistic aspects in its definition. ' State' connotes the geopolitical dimensions and the 'nation' as Anderson (1991, pp. 6-7) conceptualizes is an 'imagined community'-'limited' and 'sovereign'. Although the current globalization forces have not greatly threatened the sovereignty of nation-states in political terms (however, it has destabilized the political conceptually) yet it has disturbed their cultural sovereignty beyond repair. Globalization has ensured that the communal boundaries are not 'limited', especially to those on the maps and those functional for geopolitical purposes.The essentialized identity of the nation-state is central to the political purpose of postcolonialism. Paradoxically, the concept of the nation-state has been severely critiqued by the postcolonial theorists themselves. Ashcroft (2009, p. 12), commenting upon the status of the nation-state in the post globalization period, says that transnation offers comforts to the postcolonial critics because it allows utopian vision of identity beyond the boundaries of nation, ethnicity and race. However in this progressive and timely analysis, Ashcroft fails to see the radical break between the nation-state and the transnation. Ashcroft (2009, p. 17) conceptualizes transnation in the following terms:The transnation is not just diaspora, but the outside of the state that begins within the nation-the potential for all subjects to live beyond the metaphoric boundaries of the nation state. This never occurs more powerfully than when we choose to take responsibility for the nation's shame.Thus, according to Ashcroft, transnation escapes the oppressive power of the 'state', in order to strengthen the ideals of the 'nation'-a liberating act of imagination, which allows taking responsibility for even the most marginal members of the collectivity forming the imagined community. Ashcroft's vision of transnational imagination or transnation as the 'imagination' is positive and productive, a notion we will contest later in the paper. But where we differ more severely from Ashcroft is his conceptualizing of the nation-state as a realistic and restrictive space because of the presence of its political machinery and the transnation as a liberating existential condition because there is no political authority constricting the idea. This paper would argue that globalization has commenced a new world order, which has contributed in weakening the political-the 'state', which according to Ashcroft makes the 'nation' an oppressive unit; however, our contention is that the weakening is more in terms of the ontological rather than on merely functional basis. On purely functional basis, the effect is paradoxical-the transnation needs the 'state' machinery for promoting its own interest. …" @default.
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• W3123081608 title "Transnationalism and the Survival of Postcolonialism: A Critique" @default.
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