Vasant Kaiwar / Sucheta Mazumdar

Antinomies of Modernity

Essays on Race, Orient, Nation
Herausgeber: Kaiwar, Vasant; Mazumdar, Sucheta

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Produktbeschreibung

"Truly international in its engagement, " Antinomies of Modernity" is an important, original, and timely collection. As cultural studies turns global, we will need more anthologies like this one."--Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330110
• ISBN-10: 0822330113
• Artikelnr.: 21722576

Autorenporträt

Vasant Kaiwar is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. Sucheta Mazumdar is Associate Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market. From 1981 until 2002 they served as coeditors of the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar 1
The Aryan Model of History and the Oriental Renaissance: The Politics of
Identity in an Age of Revolutions, Colonialism, and Nationalism / Vasant
Kaiwar 13
Aryanizing Projects, African “Collaborators," and Colonial Transcripts /
Andrew E. Barnes 62
Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 98
Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu / A. R.
Venkatachalapathy 126
An Anticolonial International?: Indians, India, and Africans in British
Central Africa / Michael O. West 146
The “Moment of Manoeuvre": “Race," Ethnicity, and Nation in Postapartheid
South Africa / Neville Alexander 180
Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran / Minoo
Moallem 196
The Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian
Identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar 223
Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity / Vasant Kaiwar and
Sucheta Mazumdar 261
Select Bibliography 299
Contributors 325
Index 329