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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822359003321

Titolo

The postcolonial enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory / / edited by Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-281-99869-9

9786611998691

0-19-155186-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CareyDaniel, Dr.

FestaLynn M (Lynn Mary)

Disciplina

809.9335827

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Enlightenment

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

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

Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Some Answers to the Question: 'What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?'; Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty; Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial Classifications; Part Three: Nation, Colony, and Enlightenment Universality; Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominio