Prakash After Colonialism

Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2144-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Prakash, Gyan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface p.vii
Introduction: After Colonialism p.3
PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES
Ch. 1 Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism p.2
Ch. 2 Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives p.40
Ch. 3 Haiti, History, and the Gods p.66
Ch. 4 Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences
in Native American Museum Representations p.98
PART TWO: COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Ch. 5 The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and
the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder p.129
Ch. 6 Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between
the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early
Colonial Formosa p.153
Ch. 7 Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s
Rights of Passage in Colonial India p.183
Ch. 8 Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and
Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897–1929 p.211
Ch. 9 The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American
Experience: A Reconsideration of “Colonialism,“Postcolonialism,” and “Mestizaje” p.241
PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS
Ch. 10 Becoming Indian in the Central Andes p.279
Ch. 11 Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhaïs p.299
Ch. 12 In a Spirit of Calm Violence p.326
Notes on the Contibutors p.345
Index p.347

Über Autor(innen)

Gyan Prakash is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India and coeditor of Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia.