In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar analyses the formation of postcolonial studies around the 1989 moment of world history, shows its limitations via an engagement with Marxism, and provides an alternative, enriched account of interpretive possibilities inherent in the moment.
In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar analyses the formation of postcolonial studies around the 1989 moment of world history, shows its limitations via an engagement with Marxism, and provides an alternative, enriched account of interpretive possibilities inherent in the moment.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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Acknowledgements Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 A narrative of arrival 1.2 1989 and all that 1.3 Postcolonial difference 2 Situating Postcolonial Studies 2.1 Definitions: Colonialism, for example 2.2 Postcolonial modernisation 2.3 Postcolonial populism 2.4 Subaltern Studies 3 Colonialism, Modernity, Postcolonialism 3.1 Colonialism and modernity in a postcolonial framing 3.2 History's ironic reversals 3.3 Who is the 'subaltern' in postcolonial studies? 4 Provincialising Europe or Exoticising India? Towards a Historical and Categorial Critique of Postcolonial Studies 4.1 Marx and difference in Provincialising Europe 4.2 The not-yet of historicism 4.3 Why historicise? 4.4 Tattooed by the exotic 4.5 Under the sign of Heidegger, I: The woman's question 4.6 Under the sign of Heidegger, II: Imagined communities 4.7 Lack/inadequacy or plenitude/creativity? 4.8 Dominance without hegemony: Historicism by another name? 4.9 The constituent elements of colonial modernity 4.10 Modernity as class struggle 4.11 Orientalism and nativism 4.12 Bahubol and the Muslim question 5 Uses and Abuses of Marx 5.1 Abstract labour, difference, History I and II 5.2 The piano maker and the piano player: Productive and unproductive labour 5.3 Millennial toil as the 'nightmare of history' 5.4 'Bourgeois hegemony' and colonial rule 5.5 Modernity in the 'fullest sense' 5.6 Beyond the bourgeois revolution? Hegemony revisited 5.7 The historic moment of colonial dominance in India 5.8 A 'liberation from blinding bondage', or the question of historicism 5.9 Marxism and historicism 6 The Postcolonial Orient 6.1 The play of difference, the merchandising of the exotic, tradition and neo-traditionalism 6.2 The non-commissioned officers 6.3 The Orient as 'vanishing mediator' 6.4 The unrenounceable project 6.5 Provincialising Europe References Ind
Acknowledgements Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 A narrative of arrival 1.2 1989 and all that 1.3 Postcolonial difference 2 Situating Postcolonial Studies 2.1 Definitions: Colonialism, for example 2.2 Postcolonial modernisation 2.3 Postcolonial populism 2.4 Subaltern Studies 3 Colonialism, Modernity, Postcolonialism 3.1 Colonialism and modernity in a postcolonial framing 3.2 History's ironic reversals 3.3 Who is the 'subaltern' in postcolonial studies? 4 Provincialising Europe or Exoticising India? Towards a Historical and Categorial Critique of Postcolonial Studies 4.1 Marx and difference in Provincialising Europe 4.2 The not-yet of historicism 4.3 Why historicise? 4.4 Tattooed by the exotic 4.5 Under the sign of Heidegger, I: The woman's question 4.6 Under the sign of Heidegger, II: Imagined communities 4.7 Lack/inadequacy or plenitude/creativity? 4.8 Dominance without hegemony: Historicism by another name? 4.9 The constituent elements of colonial modernity 4.10 Modernity as class struggle 4.11 Orientalism and nativism 4.12 Bahubol and the Muslim question 5 Uses and Abuses of Marx 5.1 Abstract labour, difference, History I and II 5.2 The piano maker and the piano player: Productive and unproductive labour 5.3 Millennial toil as the 'nightmare of history' 5.4 'Bourgeois hegemony' and colonial rule 5.5 Modernity in the 'fullest sense' 5.6 Beyond the bourgeois revolution? Hegemony revisited 5.7 The historic moment of colonial dominance in India 5.8 A 'liberation from blinding bondage', or the question of historicism 5.9 Marxism and historicism 6 The Postcolonial Orient 6.1 The play of difference, the merchandising of the exotic, tradition and neo-traditionalism 6.2 The non-commissioned officers 6.3 The Orient as 'vanishing mediator' 6.4 The unrenounceable project 6.5 Provincialising Europe References Ind
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