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.
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Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volum e68
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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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Orientalism Historiography.
Postcolonialism Asia Historiography.
Postcolonialism India Historiography.
Postcolonialism Study and teaching (Higher)
Difference (Philosophy) Political aspects.
World politics 1989-
Asia Relations Europe.
Europe Relations India.
India Relations Europe.
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