| Sumario: | This article discusses issues of identity as these are embedded in and articulated by postcolonial perspectives and subaltern studies. In speaking of identities, my reference is to wide-ranging processes of formations of subjects, expressing not only particular personhoods but also collective groupings. Upon such an understanding, identities comprise a crucial means through which social processes are perceived, experienced, and articulated. Indeed, defined within historical relationships of production and reproduction, appropriation and approbation, and power and difference, cultural identities (and their mutations) are essential elements in the quotidian constitution (and pervasive transformations) of social worlds. The account ahead discusses the ways in which postcolonial and subaltern approaches have considered cultural and historical identities as part of critical elaborations, at once theoretical and empirical, of colony and empire, history and community, and nation and modernity.
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