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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- author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 68.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volum e68
- 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).
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Asia--Relations--Europe.
- Asia.
- Europe--Relations--India.
- Europe.
- India--Relations--Europe.
- India.
- Europe--Relations--Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27044-2
- OCLC:
- 879527579
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004270442 DOI
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