...This chapter talks about the concept of the “colonial subject” and its relation to recent writings about South Asia. It looks at the impacts of historical anthropology on writing about South Asia, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Subaltern Studies. The main argument in this chapter...

...)colonial subjection. Elaborating on Mahmoud Darwish’s image of “Palestine as metaphor” and Edward Said’s reflections on the utopian dimensions of Palestine, the Introduction argues that Palestine has become the figure par excellence of the colonial, broadly conceived, in the purportedly postcolonial...