Inter-imperiality is a decolonial-feminist intervention into Global Studies focused on the millennia-spanning geopolitical field of vying empires that forms together with manifold forms of anti-imperial dissent and alliance. This... more
Inter-imperiality is a decolonial-feminist intervention into Global Studies focused on the millennia-spanning geopolitical field of vying empires that forms together with manifold forms of anti-imperial dissent and alliance. This radically interdisciplinary book argues that human struggles have unfolded in relation to the inorganic, organic, and human-animal worlds that sustain us, yet in ways that have been pressured by interacting empires, whose infrastructures and violent legacies accrue over centuries into stratifying, determining conditions. Given that the gendered reproduction of state and economic stratification operates at the center of these dynamics, this analysis incorporates intersectional methods to build a dialectical analysis of world politics. Also emphasizing that this relational field has been structured by languages, the analysis examines how languages, translation, and literatures have been instrumentalized by empires yet also turned against them. Ultimately the book reveals that it is not only the materialities of empires that have accrued dialectically over millennia but also forms of relation and imagination through which communities have maneuvered in an inter-imperial force field. This kind of interdisciplinary, decolonial, and intersectional method enables a more deeply non-eurocentric analysis of global history and contemporary world politics.
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming... more
This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global countryside.
Introduces a special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies, giving an overview of the concept of inter-imperiality and describing the global range of languages, locales, and themes treated in the essays. The issue includes essays on... more
Introduces a special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies, giving an overview of the concept of inter-imperiality and describing the global range of languages, locales, and themes treated in the essays. The issue includes essays on writers in Indonesia, Korea, China, Belgrade, South Africa, the Ottoman Empire and the U.S..
Links to a special issue of PMLA co-edited by Sahar Amer and Laura Doyle. Scholars of literature in diverse languages from around the globe address the co-forming dynamics of empire, economy, and translation over the longue duree,... more
Links to a special issue of PMLA co-edited by Sahar Amer and Laura Doyle. Scholars of literature in diverse languages from around the globe address the co-forming dynamics of empire, economy, and translation over the longue duree, offering new angles and concepts for global, postcolonial, and decolonial studies.
