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The postcolonial Orient : the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe / by Vasant Kaiwar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaiwar, Vasant, 1950-
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; 68.
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 68
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--Historiography.
- Orientalism.
- Postcolonialism--Asia--Historiography.
- Postcolonialism.
- Postcolonialism--India--Historiography.
- Postcolonialism--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Difference (Philosophy)--Political aspects.
- Difference (Philosophy).
- Relations.
- Historiography.
- Asia--Relations--Europe.
- Asia.
- Europe.
- Europe--Relations--Asia.
- India--Relations--Europe.
- India.
- Europe--Relations--India.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 415 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- A narrative of arrival
- 1989 and all that
- Postcolonial difference
- 2. Situating postcolonial studies
- Definitions : colonialism, for example
- Postcolonial modernisation
- Postcolonial populism
- Subaltern studies
- 3. Colonialism, modernity, postcolonialism
- Colonialism and modernity in a postcolonial framing
- History's ironic reversals
- Who is the 'subaltern' in postcolonial studies?
- 4. Provincialising Europe or exoticising India? Towards a historical and categorial critique of postcolonial studies
- Marx and difference in provincialising Europe
- The not-yet of historicism
- Why historicise?
- Tattooed by the exotic
- Under the sign of Heidegger, I : the woman's question
- Under the sign of Heidegger, II : imagined communities
- Lack/inadequacy or plenitude/creativity?
- Dominance without hegemony : historicism by another name?
- The constituent elements of colonial modernity
- Modernity as class struggle
- Orientalism and nativism
- Bahubol and the Muslim question
- 5. Uses and abuses of Marx
- Abstract labour, difference, history I and II
- The piano maker and the piano player : productive and unproductive labour
- Millennial toil as the 'nightmare of history'
- 'Bourgeois hegemony' and colonial rule
- Modernity in the 'fullest sense'
- Beyond the bourgeois revolution? Hegemony revisited
- The historic moment of colonial dominance in India
- A 'liberation from blinding bondage,' or the question of historicism
- Marxism and historicism
- 6. The postcolonial orient
- The play of difference, the merchandising of the exotic, tradition and neo-traditionalism
- The non-commissioned officers
- The orient as 'vanishing mediator'
- The unrenounceable project
- Provincialising Europe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [376]-408) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004231862
- 9789004231863
- OCLC:
- 872222246
- Publisher Number:
- 99960226705
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