Open AccessBook
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
TLDR
In this article, the idea of provincializing Europe and the Narration of Modernity is discussed, with a focus on postcoloniality and the artifice of history, and the two histories of capital and domestic cruelty.Abstract:
Acknowlegments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3 Part One: Historicism and the Narration of Modernity Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27 Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47 Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72 Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97 Part Two: Histories of Belonging Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117 Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149 Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180 Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried labor 214 Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237 Notes 257 Index 299read more
Citations
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonial studies between the European wars: an intellectual history
Book
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947
TL;DR: Ghosh as mentioned in this paper revealed how so-called "Bhadralok dacoits" used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departure of the British from India and how, in response, the colonial government effectively declared a state of emergency, suspending the rule of law and detaining hundreds of suspected terrorists.
Book ChapterDOI
Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonialism and the problematic of uneven development
TL;DR: The paralysis and inconsequentiality of postcolonial theory in the face of globalized capitalism are so patently clear as to make it unnecessary to rehearse any further the criticisms of Aijaz Ahmad, Arif Dirlik, Neil Lazarus, and others.