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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... century. On the one hand, I elaborate the incessant interplay of temporality and tradition, spatiality and history, and place and culture by tracking the formidable presence and acute articulations of hegemonic representations of time ...
... century. On the one hand, I elaborate the incessant interplay of temporality and tradition, spatiality and history, and place and culture by tracking the formidable presence and acute articulations of hegemonic representations of time ...
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... century, in South Asia. Self-conscious breaks with prior artistic traditions within the subcontinental aesthetic landscape – alongside engagements with wider modernist imaginaries – have instilled these tendencies with rather specific ...
... century, in South Asia. Self-conscious breaks with prior artistic traditions within the subcontinental aesthetic landscape – alongside engagements with wider modernist imaginaries – have instilled these tendencies with rather specific ...
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... Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999); and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1995). 4 Talal Asad, Genealogies of ...
... Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999); and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1995). 4 Talal Asad, Genealogies of ...
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... centuries, the subjects of modernity (and globalization) have included, to take just a few instances, peasants, artisans, and workers in South Asia that have diversely articulated processes of colony and post-colony; indigenous ...
... centuries, the subjects of modernity (and globalization) have included, to take just a few instances, peasants, artisans, and workers in South Asia that have diversely articulated processes of colony and post-colony; indigenous ...
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... Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988); Thomas, Colonialism's Culture, pp. 5–7, 21–7. See also Carol Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (eds.), Orientalism and the Postcolonial ...
... Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988); Thomas, Colonialism's Culture, pp. 5–7, 21–7. See also Carol Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (eds.), Orientalism and the Postcolonial ...
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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