ДИЈАЛЕКТИКА ПОСТКОЛОНИЈАЛИЗМА
THE DIALECTIC OF POSTCOLONIALISM

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we present the development of the postcolonial studies from their beginnings to the contemporary transformation and position which some of their representatives support. We also point out the achievements and limits of this type of study and approach to literature and culture. The paper also insists on the disclosure of the use and abuse of the term postcolonialism with the analysis of the processes by which the originally revolutionary insights eventually co-opt, institutionalize and convert into a form of control of critical thinking. Namely, the official academic postcolonialism, through various strategies that the traditional control of the knowledge ensures and which universities have at their disposal, actually keeps the continuity of the policy which allegedly criticizes and which was supposed to change. Thus it represents the repetition of the situation which Aimé Césaire wrote about in the mid-twentieth century, that science, like other institutions of the establishment, protects the system, which increases the importance of critically thinking intellectuals who raise their voices against such abuses.

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