Postcolonial Orient, The: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe : Historical Materialism, Volume 68 (Historical Materialism)

Kaiwar, Vasant

Haymarket Books（2015/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 420 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781608464791
• DDC分類 325.30722

Full Description

In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of 'Europe' not to mention 'colonialism', 'modernity' and 'difference' are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface

1 Introduction
1.1 A narrative of arrival
1.2 1989 and all that
1.3 Postcolonial difference

2 Situating Postcolonial Studies
2.1 Definitions: Colonialism, for example
2.2 Postcolonial modernisation
2.3 Postcolonial populism
2.4 Subaltern Studies

3 Colonialism, Modernity, Postcolonialism
3.1 Colonialism and modernity in a postcolonial framing
3.2 History's ironic reversals
3.3 Who is the 'subaltern' in postcolonial studies?

4 Provincialising Europe or Exoticising India? Towards a Historical and Categorial Critique of Postcolonial Studies
4.1 Marx and difference in Provincialising Europe
4.2 The not-yet of historicism
4.3 Why historicise?
4.4 Tattooed by the exotic
4.5 Under the sign of Heidegger, I: The woman's question
4.6 Under the sign of Heidegger, II: Imagined communities
4.7 Lack/inadequacy or plenitude/creativity?
4.8 Dominance without hegemony: Historicism by another name?
4.9 The constituent elements of colonial modernity
4.10 Modernity as class struggle
4.11 Orientalism and nativism
4.12 Bahubol and the Muslim question

5 Uses and Abuses of Marx
5.1 Abstract labour, difference, History I and II
5.2 The piano maker and the piano player: Productive and unproductive labour
5.3 Millennial toil as the 'nightmare of history'
5.4 'Bourgeois hegemony' and colonial rule
5.5 Modernity in the 'fullest sense'
5.6 Beyond the bourgeois revolution? Hegemony revisited
5.7 The historic moment of colonial dominance in India
5.8 A 'liberation from blinding bondage', or the question of historicism
5.9 Marxism and historicism

6 The Postcolonial Orient
6.1 The play of difference, the merchandising of the exotic, tradition and neo-traditionalism
6.2 The non-commissioned officers
6.3 The Orient as 'vanishing mediator'
6.4 The unrenounceable project
6.5 Provincialising Europe

References
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