The postcolonial Orient : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / / by Vasant Kaiwar
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| Autore: |
Kaiwar Vasant <1950->
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| Titolo: |
The postcolonial Orient : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / / by Vasant Kaiwar
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325/.30722 |
| Soggetto topico: | Orientalism - Historiography |
| Postcolonialism - Asia - Historiography | |
| Postcolonialism - India - Historiography | |
| Postcolonialism - Study and teaching (Higher) | |
| Difference (Philosophy) - Political aspects | |
| World politics - 1989- | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Asia Relations Europe |
| Europe Relations India | |
| India Relations Europe | |
| Europe Relations Asia | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Situating Postcolonial Studies -- 3 Colonialism, Modernity, Postcolonialism -- 4 Provincialising Europe or Exoticising India? Towards a Historical and Categorial Critique of Postcolonial Studies -- 5 Uses and Abuses of Marx -- 6 The Postcolonial Orient -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In The Postcolonial Orient , Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The postcolonial Orient |
| ISBN: | 90-04-27044-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821799003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Historical materialism book series ; ; Volume 68.