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Subject To Colonialism
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language : en
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Release Date : 2009
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DIVThe discursive construction of Africa under colonialism, with an emphasis on the part played by African writers themselves./div
Subject To Colonialism
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Author : Gaurav Desai
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-20
Subject To Colonialism written by Gaurav Desai and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-20 with History categories.
DIVThe discursive construction of Africa under colonialism, with an emphasis on the part played by African writers themselves./div
Subject To Colonialism
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Author : Gaurav Desai
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-20
Subject To Colonialism written by Gaurav Desai and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-20 with Social Science categories.
Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among scholars. Employing literary, historical, and anthropological techniques, Gaurav Desai attempts to generate a new understanding of issues that permeate discussions of Africa by disrupting the centrality of postcolonial texts and focusing instead on the cultural and intellectual production of colonial Africans. In particular, Desai calls for a reevaluation of the “colonial library”—that set of representations and texts that have collectively “invented” Africa as a locus of difference and alterity. Presenting colonialism not as a singular, monolithic structure but rather as a practice frought with contradictions and tensions, Desai works to historicize the foundation of postcolonialism by decentering both canonical texts and privileged categories of analysis such as race, capitalism, empire, and nation. To achieve this, he focuses on texts that construct or reform—rather than merely reflect—colonialism, placing explicit emphasis on processes, performances, and the practices of everyday life. Reading these texts not merely for the content of their assertions but also for how they were created and received, Desai looks at works such as Jomo Kenyatta’s ethnography of the Gikuyu and Akiga Sai’s history of the Tiv and makes a particular plea for the canonical recuperation of African women’s writing. Scholars in African history, literature, and philosophy, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, and anthropology will welcome publication of this book.
Citizen And Subject
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Author : Mahmood Mamdani
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-05
Citizen And Subject written by Mahmood Mamdani and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05 with Political Science categories.
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. The result is a groundbreaking reassessment of colonial rule in Africa and its enduring aftereffects. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.
Ambivalence And The Postcolonial Subject
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Author : Gera Burton
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Ambivalence And The Postcolonial Subject written by Gera Burton and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Regarded as «Cuba's most mysterious poet», Juan Francisco Manzano continues to intrigue scholars across disciplines. Using a postcolonial approach, this book breaks new ground by exploring the poet's connection with the Irish civil rights champion, Richard Robert Madden. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Gera C. Burton takes a fresh look at the relationship between these two extraordinary individuals to reveal facts considered critical in achieving an understanding of their association, with particular resonance for postcolonial studies. What emerges, regardless of their ambivalence, is the creation of a strategic alliance forged by the two writers in opposition to the colonial powers. Scholars in the fields of Latin American, postcolonial, and Diasporic studies, along with specialists in Cuban and Irish studies will welcome this significant contribution to the body of work on «la gente sin historia» - the people without a history.
Post Colonial Studies The Key Concepts
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Author : Bill Ashcroft
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Post Colonial Studies The Key Concepts written by Bill Ashcroft and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, others are familiar words charged with new significance. Among over 100 entries, this book includes definitions of: diaspora Fanonism hybridity imperialism Manicheanism mimicry miscegenation negritude orientalism settler-colony subaltern trans-culturation There are suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry and a comprehensive glossary with extensive cross-referencing. The bibliography of essential writings in post-colonial studies is in an easy-to-use A-Z format.
Inventing Subjects
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Author : Himani Bannerji
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2001
Inventing Subjects written by Himani Bannerji and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
This book is a collection of essays written from a Marxist-feminist perspective, seeking to make a contribution in the field of historical sociology. The essays speak of the different ways in which social subjects and their agencies have been constructed and represented in the context of the development of colonial hegemony and socio-cultural formations in India. The book primarily focuses, through four essays, on the constructive proposals for social subjectivities and agencies of Bengali middle-class women, by both the indigenous and the colonial elite. The remaining two essays speak of the invention or construction of India as an ideological category for ruling, signalling towards a colonially ascribed identity.The essays capture the fluidity and complexity of subject construction or formation, and read moral regulations and culture in terms of a hegemonic process. They range from middle-class Bengali women s attempts at self-fashioning, to the colonial ideological reflexes within which their projects are articulated. Patriarchy and gender organization are treated here as more than women s problems , as essentially constitutive dimensions of hegemony, no matter aspired to by whom.Himani Bannerji is an Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism (2000) and The Mirror of Class: Essays on Bengali Theatre (1998). She has edited Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics (1993), and co-edited Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (2001).Bannerji challenges many deep-seated prejudices about colonial discourse, and retells the history of India, particularly of colonized Bengal from the clear viewpoint of an educated Indian, aware of her status as a citizen of a doubly colonized discourse.The Statesman
Modern Subjects Colonial Texts
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Author : Philip Holden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Modern Subjects Colonial Texts written by Philip Holden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Lessons
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Author : Sanjay Seth
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-29
Subject Lessons written by Sanjay Seth and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-29 with History categories.
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not only by the colonizers but also by the colonized, to the extent that today almost all “serious” knowledge about India—even within India—is based on western epistemologies. In Subject Lessons, Sanjay Seth’s investigation into how western knowledge was received by Indians under colonial rule becomes a broader inquiry into how modern, western epistemology came to be seen not merely as one way of knowing among others but as knowledge itself. Drawing on history, political science, anthropology, and philosophy, Seth interprets the debates and controversies that came to surround western education. Central among these were concerns that Indian students were acquiring western education by rote memorization—and were therefore not acquiring “true knowledge”—and that western education had plunged Indian students into a moral crisis, leaving them torn between modern, western knowledge and traditional Indian beliefs. Seth argues that these concerns, voiced by the British as well as by nationalists, reflected the anxiety that western education was failing to produce the modern subjects it presupposed. This failure suggested that western knowledge was not the universal epistemology it was thought to be. Turning to the production of collective identities, Seth illuminates the nationalists’ position vis-à-vis western education—which they both sought and criticized—through analyses of discussions about the education of Muslims and women.
Key Concepts In Post Colonial Studies
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Author : Bill Ashcroft
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
Key Concepts In Post Colonial Studies written by Bill Ashcroft and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.