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Postcolonial Enlightenment Eighteenth-century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory

Postcolonial Enlightenment Eighteenth-century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

CAREY, Daniel et Lynn FESTA (dir.), Postcolonial Enlightenment Eighteenth-century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, 276 p.

ISBN 9780199229147

RÉSUMÉ

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperialpractices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology,resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played acomplex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternatelyreviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatarof liberation, as target and shield, as shadow andlight. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-centurystudies and postcolonial theory - in order to interrogate the role andreputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonialambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperialaspirations.
With essays by leading scholars in the field, Postcolonial Enlightenment address issues central not only toliterature and philosophy but also to natural history, religion, law,and the emerging sciences of man. The contributors situate a range ofwriters - from Hobbes and Herder, Behn and Burke, to Defoe and Diderot- in relation both to eighteenth-century colonial practices and to keyconcepts within current postcolonial theory concerning race,globalization, human rights, sovereignty, and nationaland personal identity. By enlarging the temporal and geographicframework through which we read, the essays in this volume open upalternate genealogies for categories, events and ideas central to theemergence of global modernity

BIOGRAPHIE

Daniel Carey, University of Ireland, Galway
Lynn Festa, University of Wisconsin