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Postcolonial enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory / edited by Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism.
- Enlightenment.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominio
- Contents:
- Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Some Answers to the Question: 'What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?'; Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty; Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial Classifications; Part Three: Nation, Colony, and Enlightenment Universality; Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire?; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-99869-9
- 9786611998691
- 0-19-155186-4
- OCLC:
- 317495800
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