After Colonialism : : Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements /

After Colonialism : : Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements / / ed. by Gyan Prakash.

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After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin Americ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Apter, Emily,
Bhabha, Homi K.,
Blussé, Leonard,
Dayan, Joan,
Feierman, Steven,
Klor de Alva, J. Jorge,
Lockman, Zachary,
Pagden, Anthony,
Phillips, Ruth B.,
Prakash, Gyan,
Said, Edward,
Silverblatt, Irene,
Viswanathan, Gauri,
HerausgeberIn:
Prakash, Gyan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]
©1995
Year of Publication:1994
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: After Colonialism
  • PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES
  • Chapter 1. Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism
  • Chapter 2. Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives
  • Chapter 3. Haiti, History, and the Gods
  • Chapter 4. Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations
  • PART TWO: COLONIALISMAND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
  • Chapter 5. The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder
  • Chapter 6. Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa
  • Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert's Rights of Passage in Colonial India
  • Chapter 8. Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897-1929
  • Chapter 9. The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of "Colonialism," "Postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje"
  • PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS
  • Chapter 10. Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru
  • Chapter 11. Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhaïs
  • Chapter 12. In a Spirit of Calm Violence
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index

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