Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles - Couverture souple

Dube, Saurabh

 
9780822333371: Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822333376 ISBN 13 : 9780822333371
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. Saurabh Dube combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Drawing on extensive archival research and innovative fieldwork as well as political economy and social theory--including considerations of gender--he unpacks the implications of specific Indian pasts from the middle of the nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century.

Dube provides incisive accounts of the interactions between North American evangelical missionaries and Christian converts of central India, and between colonial legal systems and Indian popular laws. He reflects on the difficulties of history writing by considering the production and reception of recent Hindu nationalist histories. Assessing the work of the South Asian Subaltern Studies Collective, he offers substantial critical readings of major writings by Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, and others. Dube develops the concept and practice of a "history without warranty" as a means of rigorously rethinking categories such as modernity, colonialism, the West, the postcolonial, and the nation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822333376
ISBN 13 
9780822333371
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822333258: Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles

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ISBN 10 :  0822333252 ISBN 13 :  9780822333258
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2004
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