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

Other author Carey, Daniel (Professor)
Other author Festa, Lynn M. (Lynn Mary)
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Contents Hobbes and America / Srinivas Aravamudan -- The pathological sublime : pleasure and pain in the colonial context / David Lloyd -- Reading contrapuntally : Robinson Crusoe, slavery, and postcolonial theory / Daniel Carey -- Between "Oriental" and "Blacks so called," 1688-1788 / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war / Siraj Ahmed -- Of speaking natives and hybrid philosophers : Lahontan, Diderot, and the French Enlightenment critique of colonialism / Doris L. Garraway -- Universalism, diversity, and the postcolonial Enlightenment / Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun -- "These nations Newton made his own" : poetry, knowledge, and British imperial globalization / Karen O'Brien -- How to write postcolonial histories of empire? / Suvir Kaul.
Summary Leading scholars bring together 18th-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [328]-362) and index.
LCCN 2009455613
ISBN9780199229147 (hc : acid-free paper)
ISBN0199229147

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.I465 P65 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold