Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament write by Carol A. Breckenridge. This book was released on 1993. Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism write by Abdulla Al-Dabbagh. This book was released on 2010. Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A number of the greatest classics (both old and modern) of English literature, extending from Antony and Cleopatra to A Passage to India, contain a sympathetic portrayal of the East, which connects them to each other in a way that justifies the term «literary orientalism». Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism describes this clearly discernable tradition and examines certain key texts of oriental literature for the strong impact that they have had on English literature and for the striking manner in which they have been absorbed and appropriated into British culture. The Arabian Nights stands foremost among these works, which include the Maqamat, Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin Yaqdhan, as well as the oriental sources of courtly love. Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism then moves from literary orientalism to a discussion of postcolonialism and postcolonial discourse. It argues, principally, that the time has come to go beyond orientalism and postcolonialism to a more universalist approach. The inadequacies of the term «postcolonial», in particular, and the Eurocentric and Westernist perspective it implies, affirm the need for a renewed, modern form of humanism, a new humanist universalism.
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Postcolonial Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Counterpoint write by Farid Laroussi. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Postcolonial Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism within postcolonial discourse, Farid Laroussi offers a cultural tour d'horizon which considers André Gide's writing on Algeria, literature by French authors of Maghrebi descent, and the conversation surrounding secularism and the headscarf in France. A provocative investigation of the place of Muslims and Islam in Francophone culture, Postcolonial Counterpoint asks how we must proceed if postcolonial studies is to make a difference in reconciling history, identity, citizenship, and Islam in the West.
Orientalism and Religion
Orientalism and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orientalism and Religion write by Richard King. This book was released on 2013-04-03. Orientalism and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Orientalism to Postcolonialism write by Sucheta Mazumdar. This book was released on 2010-11-01. From Orientalism to Postcolonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. The contributors present eight in-depth studies and a substantial theoretical introduction, utilizing primary and secondary sources in Turkish, Farsi, Chinese, not to mention English, French and German in the effort to engage materials and cultural perspectives from diverse regions. It provides a critical attempt to think through the potentialities and limitations of area-studies and ‘civilizational’ approaches to the production of knowledge about the modern world, and the often obscured relationship between the fragment and the whole, or the particular and universal. The book is an intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors. From Orientalism to Postcolonialism will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies and Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.
