The difficulties of having Arif Dirlik published in the French language, and why I felt compelled to do it. Issue 4 (2nd October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bartel, David
• Is Part Of: Inter-Asia cultural studies. Volume 22:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 574
• Page End: 581
• Publication Date: 2021-10-02
• Subjects: Historiography of modern China -- enlightenment -- academic taxonomy -- translation -- French intellectuals -- radical theory -- (post)colonialism; Culture -- Periodicals; Asia -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Asia -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals; Culture -- Périodiques; Asie -- Civilisation -- Périodiques; Asie -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Périodiques; 303.4095
• DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2021.1995201
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-9373

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The text is a continuation of a eulogy written in the memory of Professor Dirlik, made in Duke University, a year after his passing. It develops the three argument I perceived important in the difficulties I met to translate a part of Dirlik works in the French language: a complex relation to France's colonial past, a related reserve regarding radical theories, comforting a burying of Enlightenment ideals between inaudible intersectional quarrels and more complacent postures of conservatism. I try to show how the reading of Dirlik works help to better understand the connections between the riches of (post)colonial theory and the globalization of capitalism, with China in it.