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The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe

The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe

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General Political SciencePoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004231862
ISBN13: 9789004231863
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 8 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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