The postcolonial Orient : : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / / by Vasant Kaiwar.
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 unfold...
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series, Volum e68 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 68. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004270442 |
| ISSN: | 1570-1522 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Vasant Kaiwar. |