The Postcolonial Enlightenment

Carey, Daniel

The Postcolonial Enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialism and postcolonial theory / Daniel Carey - New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiii,378p. 24cm.

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.

9780199677597

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Literature
History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
Postkolonialisme.
Kolonialismus -- Geschichte 18. Jh -- Rezeption.
Imperialism i litteraturen.

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