Antinomies of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Race, Orient, Nation
Redaktion: Vasant Kaiwar, Kaiwar

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Produktbeschreibung

Antinomies of Modernity asserts that concepts of race, Orient, and nation have been crucial to efforts across the world to create a sense of place, belonging, and solidarity in the midst of the radical discontinuities wrought by global capitalism. Emphasizing the continued salience at the beginning of the twenty-first century of these supposedly nineteenth-century ideas, the essays in this volume stress the importance of tracking the dynamic ways that race, Orient, and nation have been reworked and used over time and in particular geographic locations.Drawing on archival sources and fieldwork, the contributors explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Whether considering how European ideas of Orientalism became foundational myths of Indian nationalism; how racial caste systems between blacks, South Asians, and whites operate in post-apartheid South Africa; or how Indian immigrants to the United States negotiate their identities, these essays demonstrate that the contours of cultural and identity politics did not simply originate in metropolitan centers and get adopted wholesale in the colonies. Colonial and postcolonial modernisms have emerged via the active appropriation of, or resistance to, far-reaching European ideas. Over time, Orientalism and nationalist and racialized knowledges become indigenized and acquire, for all practical purposes, a completely "e;Third World"e; patina. Antinomies of Modernity shows that people do make history, constrained in part by political-economic realities and in part by the categories they marshal in doing so.Contributors. Neville Alexander, Andrew Barnes, Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar, Minoo Moallem, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Michael O. West

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822384564
• Artikelnr.: 54817357

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