Leela Gandhi

Affective Communities

Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337034
• ISBN-10: 0822337037
• Artikelnr.: 21587676

Autorenporträt

Leela Gandhi teaches at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Postcolonialism: A Critical Introduction, a coauthor of England in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Through Colonial Eyes, and a coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix
1. Introduction: Affective Communities 1
2. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 13
3. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 34
4. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 67
5. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 115
6. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 142
7. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177
Notes 191
Index 237