Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism

Gould, Rebecca Ruth

Abstract

An English translation of the ‘Last Will and Testament of Toma Baliauri’ is given here along with a critical introduction to this text. The introduction frames Baliauri's testament within the context of the anticolonial revolutionary movements that spread through the Caucasus during the first quarter of the twentieth century and studies how this text contributes to the global history of anticolonialism and can serve as a point of departure for a postcolonial theory inflected by the hitherto neglected post-Soviet world. Baliauri's testament was first published in Georgian in 1995, and is here translated for the first time into a foreign language.

Citation

Gould, R. R. (2011). Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism. Interventions, 13(4), 640-650. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.628151

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Oct 12, 2023
• Print ISSN: 1369-801X
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-929X
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 640-650
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.628151
• Keywords: Anticolonialism, Georgian literature, postcolonialism, revolution, Said