Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal / / Partha Chatterjee, editor

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 954; 954.1403
• Soggetto geografico: Bengal (India) History; Bengal (India) Intellectual life; Bangladesh Intellectual life
• Altri autori: ChatterjeePartha <1947->
• Note generali: "Published in conjunction with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; 1 The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal; 2 Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature; 3 Recovering the Nation's Art; 4 A Modern Science of Politics for the Colonized; 5 Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family; 6 A City Away from Home: The Mapping of Calcutta; 7 Territory and People: The Disciplining of Historical Memory; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The contributors consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.
• Titolo autorizzato: Texts of power
• ISBN: 0-8166-8686-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814290203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II