LEADER 04405nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454863903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-00885-8 010 $a9786613008855 010 $a0-231-51174-4 024 7 $a10.7312/kris14070 035 $a(CKB)1000000000771915 035 $a(EBL)908561 035 $a(OCoLC)746580182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486918 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12158324 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486918 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429933 035 $a(PQKB)11414088 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908561 035 $a(DE-B1597)459027 035 $a(OCoLC)979574873 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511742 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10449813 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300885 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000771915 100 $a20070108d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading the global$b[electronic resource] $etroubling perspectives on Britain's empire in Asia /$fSanjay Krishnan 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14070-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: How to Read the Global -- $t1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence -- $t2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk -- $t3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir's Global Perspective -- $t4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad's Lord Jim -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists.In this book, Sanjay Krishnan demonstrates how ideas of the global took root in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century descriptions of Southeast Asia. Krishnan turns to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas De Quincey, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, and Joseph Conrad, four authors who discuss the Malay Archipelago during the rise and consolidation of the British Empire. These works offer some of the most explicit and sophisticated discussions of the world as a single, interconnected entity, inducting their readers into comprehensive and objective descriptions of the world.The perspective organizing these authors' conception of the global-the frame or code through which the world came into view-is indebted to the material and discursive possibilities set in motion by European conquest. The global, therefore, is not just a peculiar mode of thematization; it is aligned to a conception of historical development unique to European colonial capitalism. Krishnan troubles this dominant perspective. Drawing on the poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and challenging the recent historiography of empire and economic histories of globalization, he elaborates a bold new approach to the humanities in the age of globalization. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGlobalization in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aCapitalism in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAsia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aAsia$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGlobalization in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aCapitalism in literature. 676 $a820.9/3552 700 $aKrishnan$b Sanjay$01045507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454863903321 996 $aReading the global$92471848 997 $aUNINA