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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... scholarship and an engaged anthropological tradition sensitive to the voices in need of amplification. Subjects of Modernity takes on the disciplinary mappings of this key concept through a fresh consideration of the times and spaces of ...
... scholarship and an engaged anthropological tradition sensitive to the voices in need of amplification. Subjects of Modernity takes on the disciplinary mappings of this key concept through a fresh consideration of the times and spaces of ...
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... and innovative ways. It is powerful, politically engaged scholarship at its best. Gurminder K. Bhambra University of Warwick PREFACE Subjects of Modernity was conceived in maculate ways. Stellenbosch iv | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
... and innovative ways. It is powerful, politically engaged scholarship at its best. Gurminder K. Bhambra University of Warwick PREFACE Subjects of Modernity was conceived in maculate ways. Stellenbosch iv | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY.
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... scholarship has contested the enduring oppositions – for example, binaries between tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential understandings of the past, key ...
... scholarship has contested the enduring oppositions – for example, binaries between tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential understandings of the past, key ...
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... scholarship of the face-offbetween portrayals of community, subaltern, tradition, and difference with projections of state, West, modernity, and power. On the one hand, these presumptions reveal linkages with enduring oppositions ...
... scholarship of the face-offbetween portrayals of community, subaltern, tradition, and difference with projections of state, West, modernity, and power. On the one hand, these presumptions reveal linkages with enduring oppositions ...
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... scholarship. On the one hand, Orientalism had shifted the terms of debate and discussion on metropolitan representations of nonEuropean peoples and their historical identities. Here was a shift from uncovering the singular biases of ...
... scholarship. On the one hand, Orientalism had shifted the terms of debate and discussion on metropolitan representations of nonEuropean peoples and their historical identities. Here was a shift from uncovering the singular biases of ...
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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