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 Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description | xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Supplemental Content | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Supplemental Content | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-362) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009455613 |
| ISBN | 9780199229147 (hc : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0199229147 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN56.I465 P65 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |