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The postcolonial enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialism and postcolonial theory / edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xiii, 378 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199677597 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9335 CAR
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Contents:
1: Notes on contributors ; 2: List of illustrations ; 3: Introduction Some answers to the question What is postcolonial enlightenment ; 4: Provincializing enlightenment ; 5: Enlightenment without others ; 6: Postcolonial enlightenments ; 7: Part one Subjects and sovereignty ; 8: Hobbes and America ; 9: The pathological sublime Pleasure and pain in the colonial context ; 10: Part two Enlightenment categories and postcolonial classifications ; 11: Reading contrapuntally Robinson Crusoe slavery and postcolonial theory ; 12: Between Oriental and Blacks so called 1688 to 1788 ; 13: Orientalism and the permanent fix of war ; 14: Part three Nation colony and enlightenment universality ; 15: Of speaking natives and hybrid philosophers Lahontan Diderot and the French enlightenment critique of colonialism ; 16: Universalism diversity and the postcolonial enlightenment ; 17: These nations Newton made his own Poetry knowledge and British imperial globalization ; 18: Coda How to write postcolonial histories of empire .
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1: Notes on contributors ;
2: List of illustrations ;
3: Introduction Some answers to the question What is postcolonial enlightenment ;
4: Provincializing enlightenment ;
5: Enlightenment without others ;
6: Postcolonial enlightenments ;
7: Part one Subjects and sovereignty ;
8: Hobbes and America ;
9: The pathological sublime Pleasure and pain in the colonial context ;
10: Part two Enlightenment categories and postcolonial classifications ;
11: Reading contrapuntally Robinson Crusoe slavery and postcolonial theory ;
12: Between Oriental and Blacks so called 1688 to 1788 ;
13: Orientalism and the permanent fix of war ;
14: Part three Nation colony and enlightenment universality ;
15: Of speaking natives and hybrid philosophers Lahontan Diderot and the French enlightenment critique of colonialism ;
16: Universalism diversity and the postcolonial enlightenment ;
17: These nations Newton made his own Poetry knowledge and British imperial globalization ;
18: Coda How to write postcolonial histories of empire .