7pm - 9pm on Friday 22nd June Revolution Books, New York
John Hutnyk:
"Rumour and fear breeds violence and death: the limits of hybridity-talk and the chapati fetish of 1857
(or, the appearance and eclipse of politics in cultural studies)".
A discussion of the influence of the early work of the subaltern school of history, considering the waning career of the term hybridity in postcolonial and cultural studies, assessed on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first war of independence in India. From Marx on colonialism, to Mao on organisation, the take up of actually existing struggles is subsequently filtered through theory and needs to be evaluated in the context of the present.
Revolution Books
9 West 19th Street
(Between 5th and 6th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
www.revolutionbooksnyc.org
John Hutnyk is Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and is author of several books including "The Rumour of Calcutta" (1996), "Critique of Exotica" (2000), "Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies" (2004). He recently published "Diaspora and Hybridity", co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur (Sage 2006). Weblog: http://hutnyk.blogspot.com
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