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 14
... once again irreducibly braid the temporal and the spatial. This is to say that prior places/times, at once anachronistic yet entirely coeval, appear enmeshed with contemporary stages/spaces, thus intimating the tangles, tatters, and ...
... once again irreducibly braid the temporal and the spatial. This is to say that prior places/times, at once anachronistic yet entirely coeval, appear enmeshed with contemporary stages/spaces, thus intimating the tangles, tatters, and ...
Page 15
... once critical constituents and active outcomes, formative attributes and key consequences of meaning and power, alterity and authority, and practice and process that define our worlds and their divisions.6 In this book, I will attend to ...
... once critical constituents and active outcomes, formative attributes and key consequences of meaning and power, alterity and authority, and practice and process that define our worlds and their divisions.6 In this book, I will attend to ...
Page 17
... were frequently underplayed.11 Intervening in this field, Orientalism made a persuasive case for the discursive fabrication – at once ideological and An Introduction | 17 Unraveling orientations: the postcolonial and the subaltern.
... were frequently underplayed.11 Intervening in this field, Orientalism made a persuasive case for the discursive fabrication – at once ideological and An Introduction | 17 Unraveling orientations: the postcolonial and the subaltern.
Page 18
... once ideological and material – of the Orient as an object and identity through the profound dynamic of knowledge and power constitutive of Western empires. Now, it is not only that anticolonial thinking has a longer past than Said's ...
... once ideological and material – of the Orient as an object and identity through the profound dynamic of knowledge and power constitutive of Western empires. Now, it is not only that anticolonial thinking has a longer past than Said's ...
Page 24
... once particular personhoods and collective groupings. Here, identities comprise a crucial means through which such processes are perceived, experienced, and articulated. Indeed, defined within cultural-temporal and socio-spatial ...
... once particular personhoods and collective groupings. Here, identities comprise a crucial means through which such processes are perceived, experienced, and articulated. Indeed, defined within cultural-temporal and socio-spatial ...
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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