The Intimacies of Four Continents - Couverture souple

Lowe, Lisa

 
9780822358756: The Intimacies of Four Continents
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822358751 ISBN 13 : 9780822358756
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human" is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University . She is the author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and the coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822358751
ISBN 13 
9780822358756
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0822358638 ISBN 13 :  9780822358633
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015
Couverture rigide