CONSCRIPTS OF MODERNITY

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial historywhen many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exh austion, corruption, and authoritarianismDavid Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usabl e future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as r omanceas a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes t he same tra...[Read more]