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EBOOK Postcolonial Enlightenment:Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191607813
EAN: 6B46DEB7EB
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Stron: 392
Data wydania: 2009
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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        dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This        volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies and        postcolonialtheory - in order to interrogate the role and reputation of        Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial        interrogations of Western imperial aspirations.With essays by leading scholars in        the field, Postcolonial Enlightenment address issues central not only to literature        and philosophy but also to natural history, religion, law, and the emerging sciences        of man. The contributors situate a range of writers - from Hobbes and Herder, Behn        and Burke, to Defoe and Diderot - in relation both to eighteenth-century colonial        practices and to key concepts within current postcolonial theory concerning race,        globalization, human rights,sovereignty, and national and personal identity. By        enlarging the temporal and geographic framework through which we read, the essays in        this volume open up alternate genealogies for categories, events and ideas central        to the emergence of global modernity.

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