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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... ...................................... 16 Unravelling orientations: the postcolonial and the subaltern............................................... 17 Historical anthropology...........................................
... ...................................... 16 Unravelling orientations: the postcolonial and the subaltern............................................... 17 Historical anthropology...........................................
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... orientations – especially, their competing conceptions of the relationship between knowing/explication and place/location – as underpinning modern knowledge(s) through to the ongoing presence of “heroic histories” in explanations of ...
... orientations – especially, their competing conceptions of the relationship between knowing/explication and place/location – as underpinning modern knowledge(s) through to the ongoing presence of “heroic histories” in explanations of ...
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... orientations that refuse to render the worlds of modernity and its subjects as mere objects of knowledge awaiting their ineluctable endorsement, inevitable refinement, or irrevocable exorcism at the hands 16 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY ...
... orientations that refuse to render the worlds of modernity and its subjects as mere objects of knowledge awaiting their ineluctable endorsement, inevitable refinement, or irrevocable exorcism at the hands 16 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY ...
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... orientations: the. postcolonial. and. the. subaltern. Around four decades ago, Edward Said's seminal study, Orientalism, crucially underscored the mutual entailments of European colonialism and empire with Western knowledge and power.10 ...
... orientations: the. postcolonial. and. the. subaltern. Around four decades ago, Edward Said's seminal study, Orientalism, crucially underscored the mutual entailments of European colonialism and empire with Western knowledge and power.10 ...
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... orientations emerged under the sign of the colony, the subaltern studies project was born under the mark of the nation. This is to say that, whereas postcolonial understandings privileged colonialism as a historical departure in the ...
... orientations emerged under the sign of the colony, the subaltern studies project was born under the mark of the nation. This is to say that, whereas postcolonial understandings privileged colonialism as a historical departure in the ...
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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