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Titolo: | Postcolonial enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory / / edited by Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809.9335827 |
Soggetto topico: | Postcolonialism |
Enlightenment | |
Imperialism in literature | |
Colonies in literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | CareyDaniel, Dr. FestaLynn M (Lynn Mary) |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Postcolonial enlightenment |
ISBN: | 1-281-99869-9 |
9786611998691 | |
0-19-155186-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454637503321 |
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