After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

By: Gyan Prakash

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Synopsis: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 336 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781400821440
Related ISBNs:: 9781400806355, 9780691037424, 9781400817610, 9781400806379, 9781400813049, 9781400806362, 9780691037431
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/07/24
Copyrighted By:: Princeton University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction
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Edited by:: Gyan Prakash