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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... issues South Africa and the African continent face, also in a global context. STIAS has been moulded in the tradition of Institutes for Advanced Study across the globe. It distinguished itself by encompassing all disciplines from the ...
... issues South Africa and the African continent face, also in a global context. STIAS has been moulded in the tradition of Institutes for Advanced Study across the globe. It distinguished itself by encompassing all disciplines from the ...
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... , often implicit, of hierarchical mappings of space and time that have revealed the critical possibilities of historical anthropology. As the next step, the work explores issues of identity 14 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
... , often implicit, of hierarchical mappings of space and time that have revealed the critical possibilities of historical anthropology. As the next step, the work explores issues of identity 14 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
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... issues of identity under modernity. Here, through their essential association with particular places, bounded spaces, identities are frequently rendered as a means of negotiating or overcoming modernity, which in turn is apprehended as ...
... issues of identity under modernity. Here, through their essential association with particular places, bounded spaces, identities are frequently rendered as a means of negotiating or overcoming modernity, which in turn is apprehended as ...
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... issue and business. Such subjects appear no less formed and transformed by spatial imperatives and temporal stipulations. Taken together, my articulation of subjects of modernity can productively widen the range of address of modernity ...
... issue and business. Such subjects appear no less formed and transformed by spatial imperatives and temporal stipulations. Taken together, my articulation of subjects of modernity can productively widen the range of address of modernity ...
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... issues of identity and history, especially those undertaken by minorities and feminists.15 They also acutely elaborated post-structuralist theory, expressly endorsing antihumanist perspectives.16 Taken together, from the early 1980s ...
... issues of identity and history, especially those undertaken by minorities and feminists.15 They also acutely elaborated post-structuralist theory, expressly endorsing antihumanist perspectives.16 Taken together, from the early 1980s ...
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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