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The postcolonial enlightenment : Eighteenth-century colonialism and postcolonial theory / edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xiii, 378 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199229147 (hc : acidfree paper)
  • 9780199677597
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9335 CAR 22
LOC classification:
  • PN56.I465 P65 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Content : Some Answers to the Question: 'What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?', Lynn Festa and Daniel Carey Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty 1. Hobbes and America, Srinivas Aravamudan 2. The Physiological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Colonial Context, David Lloyd Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial Classifications 3. Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe, Slavery, and Postcolonial Theory, Daniel Carey 4. Between 'Oriental' and 'Blacks, So Called,' 1688-1788, Felicity Nussbaum 5. Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War, Siraj Ahmed Part Three: Nation, Colony, and Enlightenment Universality 6. Of Speaking Natives and Hybrid Philosophers: The French Enlightenment Critique of Colonialism, Doris Garraway 7. Universalism, Diversity, and the Postcolonial Enlightenment, Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun 8. 'These Nations Newton Made his Own': Poetry, Knowledge and British Imperial Globalisation, Karen O'Brien Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire?, Suvir Kaul
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-362) and index.

Content :
Some Answers to the Question: 'What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?', Lynn Festa and Daniel Carey
Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty
1. Hobbes and America, Srinivas Aravamudan
2. The Physiological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Colonial Context, David Lloyd
Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial Classifications
3. Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe, Slavery, and Postcolonial Theory, Daniel Carey
4. Between 'Oriental' and 'Blacks, So Called,' 1688-1788, Felicity Nussbaum
5. Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War, Siraj Ahmed
Part Three: Nation, Colony, and Enlightenment Universality
6. Of Speaking Natives and Hybrid Philosophers: The French Enlightenment Critique of Colonialism, Doris Garraway
7. Universalism, Diversity, and the Postcolonial Enlightenment, Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun
8. 'These Nations Newton Made his Own': Poetry, Knowledge and British Imperial Globalisation, Karen O'Brien
Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire?, Suvir Kaul

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