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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787965803321

Autore

Kaiwar Vasant <1950->

Titolo

The postcolonial Orient : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / / by Vasant Kaiwar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27044-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volum e68

Disciplina

325/.30722

Soggetti

Orientalism - Historiography

Postcolonialism - Asia - Historiography

Postcolonialism - India - Historiography

Postcolonialism - Study and teaching (Higher)

Difference (Philosophy) - Political aspects

World politics - 1989-

Asia Relations Europe

Europe Relations India

India Relations Europe

Europe Relations Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Situating Postcolonial Studies -- 3 Colonialism, Modernity, Postcolonialism -- 4 Provincialising Europe or Exoticising India? Towards a Historical and Categorial Critique of Postcolonial Studies -- 5 Uses and Abuses of Marx -- 6 The Postcolonial Orient -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Postcolonial Orient , Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar



mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.