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The Postcolonial Enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialism and postcolonial theory / Daniel Carey

By: Carey, DanielContributor(s): Carey, Daniel | Festa, LynnMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: xiii,378p. 24cmISBN: 9780199677597Subject(s): Literature | History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures | Postkolonialisme | Kolonialismus -- Geschichte 18. Jh -- Rezeption | Imperialism i litteraturenDDC classification: 809.9335 CAR

Contents:

Hobbes and America / Srinivas Aravamudan -- The pathological sublime : pleasure and pain in the colonial context / David Lloyd -- Reading contrapuntally : Robinson Crusoe, slavery, and postcolonial theory / Daniel Carey -- Between "Oriental" and "Blacks so called," 1688-1788 / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war / Siraj Ahmed -- Of speaking natives and hybrid philosophers : Lahontan, Diderot, and the French Enlightenment critique of colonialism / Doris L. Garraway -- Universalism, diversity, and the postcolonial Enlightenment / Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun -- "These nations Newton made his own" : poetry, knowledge, and British imperial globalization / Karen O'Brien -- How to write postcolonial histories of empire? / Suvir Kaul.

Summary: Leading scholars bring together 18th-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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Hobbes and America / Srinivas Aravamudan --
The pathological sublime : pleasure and pain in the colonial context / David Lloyd --
Reading contrapuntally : Robinson Crusoe, slavery, and postcolonial theory / Daniel Carey --
Between "Oriental" and "Blacks so called," 1688-1788 / Felicity A. Nussbaum --
Orientalism and the permanent fix of war / Siraj Ahmed --
Of speaking natives and hybrid philosophers : Lahontan, Diderot, and the French Enlightenment critique of colonialism / Doris L. Garraway --
Universalism, diversity, and the postcolonial Enlightenment / Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun --
"These nations Newton made his own" : poetry, knowledge, and British imperial globalization / Karen O'Brien --
How to write postcolonial histories of empire? / Suvir Kaul.

Leading scholars bring together 18th-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.

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