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UNINA9910822359003321 |
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Titolo |
The postcolonial enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory / / edited by Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-99869-9 |
9786611998691 |
0-19-155186-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CareyDaniel, Dr. |
FestaLynn M (Lynn Mary) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postcolonialism |
Enlightenment |
Imperialism in literature |
Colonies in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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