A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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70 Mahmoud Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of<br />
Late <strong>Colonialism</strong> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 11. The two authors<br />
repeatedly assert that individuals can give voice to their own desires, which leads Patton<br />
to assert that the minority is imbued with special power to deterritorialize and change<br />
dominant social codes. Patton, Deleuze and the Political, 7.<br />
71 The term “postcolonial” is obviously used with some trepidation, given the multiple<br />
interpretations of the word. In this context, postcolonial applies to recent theoretical<br />
criticisms of older colonial histories. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern<br />
Speak?” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg.<br />
(Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988), 273, 279, 286, 290.<br />
72 Russell A. Berman, Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in <strong>German</strong> Culture<br />
(Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 15-16, 229, 235, 237. Berman<br />
reinforces the particular situation of <strong>German</strong> colonialism in: Ibid., 15. Homi K. Bhabha,<br />
The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994). Robert J.C. Young,<br />
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003),<br />
392. Deleuze and Guattari also mirror the historicized and anthropological investigation<br />
of colonialism that Thomas seeks in: Thomas, 4, 12, 192. Guha, <strong>History</strong> at the Limit of<br />
World <strong>History</strong>.<br />
73 Thomas, 15.<br />
74 Bhabha, 94-95. This is the logical consequence of the postcolonial belief that the<br />
colonial experience varied in different localities and thus postcolonial theory must be<br />
similarly different.<br />
75 Ibid., 37-38. This negotiation matches Deleuze’s idea of compatibility between all<br />
entities, even contraries.<br />
76 Passavant and Dean provide the linkage between poststructuralism and international<br />
relations in: Passavant and Dean, 172. This conception of poststructuralism is informed<br />
by: Young, White Mythologies, 1.<br />
77 Patton and Protevi, 16. Brian Massumi, “Requiem for Our Prospective Dead (Toward<br />
a Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power),” in Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in<br />
Politics, Philosophy, and Culture eds. Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller<br />
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) 53.<br />
78 Thomas, ix-x.<br />
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