Postcolonial enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory / / edited by Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9335827
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism; Enlightenment; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature
• 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.: 9910967773903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II