Arif Dirlik

The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a range of issues from cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. It offers "multi-historicalism," which presupposes a historically grounded conception of cultural difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780813332499
• ISBN-10: 0813332494
• Artikelnr.: 22101402

Autorenporträt

Arif Dirlik is professor of history at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Credits
Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History
Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practice
The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism
The Global in the Local
Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism
There Is More in the Rim than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea"
Three Worlds or One, or Many? The Reconfiguration of Global Relations Under Contemporary Capitalism
Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism
The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture
The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism