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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... concerning the absence of women authors in the text, as distinct from the notes. The question turns on the politics of gender, citation, and knowledge – taken together – and I would like to respond to it, as a tiny token, too, of the ...
... concerning the absence of women authors in the text, as distinct from the notes. The question turns on the politics of gender, citation, and knowledge – taken together – and I would like to respond to it, as a tiny token, too, of the ...
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... concerning modernity, history, and the West/Europe, which have been raised by distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of ...
... concerning modernity, history, and the West/Europe, which have been raised by distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of ...
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... concerning temporal/spatial distinctions of the modern and the non-modern/trans-modern that have characterised South Asian subaltern studies, Latin American scholarship on coloniality/decoloniality, and postcolonial perspectives at ...
... concerning temporal/spatial distinctions of the modern and the non-modern/trans-modern that have characterised South Asian subaltern studies, Latin American scholarship on coloniality/decoloniality, and postcolonial perspectives at ...
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... concerning the mutual binds between everyday oppositions, routine enchantments, temporal ruptures, and spatial hierarchies of a modern provenance. My reference is to productions of space and time, antinomies and enticements, as ...
... concerning the mutual binds between everyday oppositions, routine enchantments, temporal ruptures, and spatial hierarchies of a modern provenance. My reference is to productions of space and time, antinomies and enticements, as ...
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... concerning the impact of the (South Asian) subaltern studies project on writings on Latin America. Not only was there the formation of a wide-ranging Latin American subaltern studies project in the US, but the work of the South Asian ...
... concerning the impact of the (South Asian) subaltern studies project on writings on Latin America. Not only was there the formation of a wide-ranging Latin American subaltern studies project in the US, but the work of the South Asian ...
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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