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This chapter distinguishes different strands within (post)colonialism since the immediate postwar. It accounts for the varying disciplinary formations of postcolonial studies in relation to antisemitism which were equally accommodating and unaccommodating. Such tensions were resolved in the flowering of interdisciplinary studies which do not confine colonial racism and antisemitism to separate spheres. I will explore each of these different aspects of (post)colonialism separately to highlight the resistances and responses to the intersecting histories of colonial racism and antisemitism. To foreground the different historical contexts for the topic the chapter is divided into sections as follows: “Antisemitism and Colonialism after the Second World War”; “Postcolonial Studies”; “The cosmopolitan intellectual”; and “Old/New Areas of Research”.
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Cheyette, B. (2021). Postcolonialism. In: Goldberg, S., Ury, S., Weiser, K. (eds) Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51658-1_18
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