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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... politics of gender, citation, and knowledge – taken together – and I would like to respond to it, as a tiny token, too, of the fabulous editorship and graceful friendship that Gurminder has provided me. On the one hand, citational ...
... politics of gender, citation, and knowledge – taken together – and I would like to respond to it, as a tiny token, too, of the fabulous editorship and graceful friendship that Gurminder has provided me. On the one hand, citational ...
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... politics and cultural identities.26 Especially influential in these arenas are the writings of Gayatri Spivak, for instance, that harness “deconstructionist” readings and “strategic” sensibilities to fashion against-the-grain readings ...
... politics and cultural identities.26 Especially influential in these arenas are the writings of Gayatri Spivak, for instance, that harness “deconstructionist” readings and “strategic” sensibilities to fashion against-the-grain readings ...
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... track the active construal, the exact production, of space and time within the epistemic practice of these critical perspectives. Chapter 3 draws on social theory, political philosophy, and other 22 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY Pathways.
... track the active construal, the exact production, of space and time within the epistemic practice of these critical perspectives. Chapter 3 draws on social theory, political philosophy, and other 22 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY Pathways.
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... political philosophy, and other scholarship in the critical humanities in order to make its claims concerning the mutual binds between everyday oppositions, routine enchantments, temporal ruptures, and spatial hierarchies of a modern ...
... political philosophy, and other scholarship in the critical humanities in order to make its claims concerning the mutual binds between everyday oppositions, routine enchantments, temporal ruptures, and spatial hierarchies of a modern ...
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... political and the postcolonial, gender and sexuality, body and pain, and the epic and the contemporary. Taken together, the discussion suggests the salience of tracking heterogeneous, yet overlaying, temporalities of modernisms in South ...
... political and the postcolonial, gender and sexuality, body and pain, and the epic and the contemporary. Taken together, the discussion suggests the salience of tracking heterogeneous, yet overlaying, temporalities of modernisms in South ...
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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