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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... South Asia as envisioned from Latin America. Of particular significance here is mythinking through of the place and ... South Asian subaltern studies, Latin American scholarship on coloniality/decoloniality, and postcolonial perspectives ...
... South Asia as envisioned from Latin America. Of particular significance here is mythinking through of the place and ... South Asian subaltern studies, Latin American scholarship on coloniality/decoloniality, and postcolonial perspectives ...
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... South Asia were often central to such endeavours.20 Here an important role was played by the formation of the subaltern studies project, based on meetings between a small set of enthusiastic younger historians of India, most of them ...
... South Asia were often central to such endeavours.20 Here an important role was played by the formation of the subaltern studies project, based on meetings between a small set of enthusiastic younger historians of India, most of them ...
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... South Asia. Self-conscious breaks with prior artistic traditions within the subcontinental aesthetic landscape β alongside engagements with wider modernist imaginaries β have instilled these tendencies with rather specific energies ...
... South Asia. Self-conscious breaks with prior artistic traditions within the subcontinental aesthetic landscape β alongside engagements with wider modernist imaginaries β have instilled these tendencies with rather specific energies ...
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... South Asia that have diversely articulated processes of colony and post-colony; indigenous communities in the Americas under colonial and national rule; peoples of African descent not only on that continent but in different diasporas ...
... South Asia that have diversely articulated processes of colony and post-colony; indigenous communities in the Americas under colonial and national rule; peoples of African descent not only on that continent but in different diasporas ...
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... South Asia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). For example, Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd ... South Asian History and Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 330β63. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
... South Asia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). For example, Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd ... South Asian History and Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 330β63. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
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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