The Postcolonial Gramsci

Few thinkers matter more to postcolonial studies than Antonio Gramsci, and this collection places his writing within the wide and intricate field that postcolonial scholarship has become. Its aim is to measure how far Gramsci's emphasis on culture and literature, in building a radical notion of the nation, has influenced the work of Frantz Fanon and Edward Said.

Iain Chambers is cited as arguing that Gramsci helped scholars rethink historical, political and cultural conflict. In Chambers's reading, the contrast between tradition and modernity gives way to a contrast between subaltern and hegemonic regions of the world. The contributors combine theoretical discussion with fresh readings of Gramsci and compare perspectives from different geographical and cultural settings. They examine key concepts such as the subaltern, passive revolution, hegemony and national-popular culture.

The overall goal is to draw a political map of the postcolonial, with Gramsci as the central point of reference.