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Postcolonial History and Subaltern Studies: Theory and Issues

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2025, (53), pp.35~82
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : July 21, 2025
  • Accepted : August 16, 2025
  • Published : August 31, 2025

JAE-WON LEE 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

In recent years, postcolonial histories of Empire have acquired ever greater significance as new imperial formations have threatened to rear their heads in different parts of the world. In particular, The trajectory of the Subaltern Studies collective over the three decades of its existence makes clear some of its lasting contributions to the project of postcolonial history-writing. First, the collective developed one of the most sustained modes of critique against the Eurocentrism that had marked much history-writing all over the world. Secondly, it located a critique of the contemporary nation state in the legacy of Eurocentrism that came to many centres of the world through the vehicle of colonialism. Finally, it provided historians with a critical vocabulary with which to rewrite the subaltern back into history as a political subject.

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