The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe (Historical Materialism Book, Band 68) - Hardcover

Vasant Kaiwar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004231862 ISBN 13: 9789004231863

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2014

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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.

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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).

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• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004231862
• ISBN 13: 9789004231863
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 436
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland