LEADER 04418nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910454752503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08785-1 010 $a9786612087851 010 $a1-4008-2766-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827664 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756357 035 $a(EBL)445518 035 $a(OCoLC)368337673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10018355 035 $a(PQKB)11750683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445518 035 $a(DE-B1597)446291 035 $a(OCoLC)979578801 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827664 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284259 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208785 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756357 100 $a20060727d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnlightenment in the colony$b[electronic resource] $ethe Jewish question and the crisis of postcolonial culture /$fAamir R. Mufti 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05731-1 311 $a0-691-05732-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-313) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tA Note on Translation and Transliteration --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tPrologue. Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism --$tPart I. Emergence: Europe and Its Others --$tChapter One. Jewishness as Minority --$tChapter Two. Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture --$tPart II. Displacements: On the Verge of India --$tChapter Three. Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad --$tChapter Four. Saadat Hasan Manto --$tChapter Five. Faiz Ahmed Faiz --$tEpilogue. In My Beginning Is My End --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aEnlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization. Enlightenment in the Colony calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures. 606 $aSecularism$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aNationalism$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aMuslims in literature 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aJews$zEurope$xIdentity$xHistory 606 $aLiberalism$zEurope$xHistory 607 $aIndia$xColonial influence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecularism$xHistory. 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory. 615 0$aMuslims in literature. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity$xHistory. 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory. 676 $a211.60954 700 $aMufti$b Aamir$01028510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454752503321 996 $aEnlightenment in the colony$92444544 997 $aUNINA