The postcolonial Orient : : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / / by Vasant Kaiwar.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volum e68
• VerfasserIn: Kaiwar, Vasant, 1950-
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

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.