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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Page 13
... expressions. At the same time, the work highlights that such segregation of the past from the present, although assumed to be principally temporal, nonetheless embodies profoundly spatial attributes. Thus, the place-holding presumption ...
... expressions. At the same time, the work highlights that such segregation of the past from the present, although assumed to be principally temporal, nonetheless embodies profoundly spatial attributes. Thus, the place-holding presumption ...
Page 15
... expressions in the disciplines studying physical worlds, my concern in this book is with the social dimensions of these categories and processes. Intimately enmeshed, the one with the other, social space and social time are far from ...
... expressions in the disciplines studying physical worlds, my concern in this book is with the social dimensions of these categories and processes. Intimately enmeshed, the one with the other, social space and social time are far from ...
Page 23
... expressions of socio-spatial and hetero-temporal disciplinary subjects and cultural terrains, past and present. Chapter 5 turns to issues of identity and modernity. Based on rather particular readings of an array of historical and ...
... expressions of socio-spatial and hetero-temporal disciplinary subjects and cultural terrains, past and present. Chapter 5 turns to issues of identity and modernity. Based on rather particular readings of an array of historical and ...
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... expressions of space and time. Thus, I approach identities as referring to broad-ranging temporal-spatial processes of formations of subjects, intimating at once particular personhoods and collective groupings. Here, identities comprise ...
... expressions of space and time. Thus, I approach identities as referring to broad-ranging temporal-spatial processes of formations of subjects, intimating at once particular personhoods and collective groupings. Here, identities comprise ...
Page 32
... expressions of the past. Such readings could problematise the very nature of the historical archive as well as initiate conversations with other orientations, including those of structural linguistics and critical theory.1 No less ...
... expressions of the past. Such readings could problematise the very nature of the historical archive as well as initiate conversations with other orientations, including those of structural linguistics and critical theory.1 No less ...
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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