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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... example, binaries between tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential understandings of the past, key conceptions of culture(s). On the one hand, such theoretical ...
... example, binaries between tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential understandings of the past, key conceptions of culture(s). On the one hand, such theoretical ...
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... examples of European representations was presented, but their “discursive affiliations and underlying epistemologies” were frequently underplayed.11 Intervening in this field, Orientalism made a persuasive case for the discursive ...
... examples of European representations was presented, but their “discursive affiliations and underlying epistemologies” were frequently underplayed.11 Intervening in this field, Orientalism made a persuasive case for the discursive ...
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... example, in the dramatic moment of 1968 – and the continuation of these struggles into the 1970s across different parts of the world. Together, postcolonial and subaltern studies were preceded and shaped by these wider developments and ...
... example, in the dramatic moment of 1968 – and the continuation of these struggles into the 1970s across different parts of the world. Together, postcolonial and subaltern studies were preceded and shaped by these wider developments and ...
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... examples, especially writings that early on intimated to me each of these tendencies throughout the long 1990s. At the same time, it warrants emphasis that distinct disciplines reveal different textures of the orientations under ...
... examples, especially writings that early on intimated to me each of these tendencies throughout the long 1990s. At the same time, it warrants emphasis that distinct disciplines reveal different textures of the orientations under ...
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... example, Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds.), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990); Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography,” in ...
... example, Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds.), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990); Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography,” in ...
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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