Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago |
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... essays, which had inchoately indicated a book ahead, now began to fall into place. For a work that approached modernity as being constitutively contradictory, thinking it through on Stellenbosch Mountain proved particularly productive ...
... essays, which had inchoately indicated a book ahead, now began to fall into place. For a work that approached modernity as being constitutively contradictory, thinking it through on Stellenbosch Mountain proved particularly productive ...
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... essay in the sense of an argument in six parts. It draws together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative by sowing the empirical, the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical ...
... essay in the sense of an argument in six parts. It draws together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative by sowing the empirical, the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical ...
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... essay,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 21 (1992): 93–123; Nancy Munn, The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992). See also Pierre Bourdieu ...
... essay,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 21 (1992): 93–123; Nancy Munn, The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992). See also Pierre Bourdieu ...
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... Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Gyan Prakash, “Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism,” American Historical Review, 99 (1994): 1475–90. For details, see Dube, Stitches on ...
... Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Gyan Prakash, “Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism,” American Historical Review, 99 (1994): 1475–90. For details, see Dube, Stitches on ...
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... Essays in Cultural Politics (London: Methuen, 1987); Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); Ranajit Guha and Gayatri ...
... Essays in Cultural Politics (London: Methuen, 1987); Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); Ranajit Guha and Gayatri ...
Contents
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antinomies and enticements | 57 |
entanglements and ambiguities | 91 |
identities and incitements | 119 |
an epilogue | 139 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 175 |
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