The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe - Couverture rigide

Kaiwar, Vasant

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004231862 ISBN 13 : 9789004231863

Editeur : Brill, 2014

Synopsis

In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the 'post' in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of 'Europe' not to mention 'colonialism', 'modernity' and 'difference' are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vasant Kaiwar, (Ph.D. UCLA, 1989), Visiting Associate Professor of History, Duke University; founder-editor, South Asia Bulletin (1981-93) and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (1993-2002); and co-editor, Antinomies of Modernity (2003) and From Orientalism to Postcolonialism (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004231862
• ISBN 13: 9789004231863
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 436
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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