Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
10 best books like Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition (Dipesh Chakrabarty): Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Silencing the Past, Marxism and Literature, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, German Ideology, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Selected Subaltern Studies, The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
| Author | Mahmood Mamdani |
| ISBN | 0691027935 |
In this provocative analysis of the obstacles to democratization in post-independence Africa, Mahmood Mandani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy: a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity...
| Author | Michel-Rolph Trouillot |
| ISBN | 0807043117 |
If Marx, Foucault, and Howard Zinn wrote a book together, it would probably look something like Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. This isn't a slur, though; as you can tell from my five-star rating, I obviously appreciated the book, its author's cobbled personal reflections plus broader...
| Author | Raymond Williams |
| ISBN | 0198760612 |
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of cultural materialism'...
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801841151 |
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer...
Selected Subaltern Studies
| Author | Ranajit Guha |
| ISBN | 0195052897 |
This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed...
| Author | Partha Chatterjee |
| ISBN | 0691033056 |
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating...
| Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| ISBN | 0674177649 |
Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions...
| Author | Anne McClintock |
| ISBN | 0415908906 |
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between...
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing...
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0520231112 |
Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows...
| Author | Moishe Postone |
| ISBN | 0521565405 |
In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him...
| Author | Stuart Hall |
| ISBN | 0333220617 |
How and why did an activity familiar in London streets as long ago as the 1860s come to be described by the British press and police in August 1972 as ‘a frightening new strain of crime’? And if mugging—for this is the crime in question—was new in 1972, how could comparative statistics be produced...
| Author | Homi K. Bhabha |
| ISBN | 0415014832 |
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order...
| Author | Reinhart Koselleck |
| ISBN | 0231127715 |
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
| Author | Peter Linebaugh |
| ISBN | 1859845762 |
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.
Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose—for...
| Author | Cedric J. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0807848298 |
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience...
| Author | Samir Amin |
| ISBN | 0853457867 |
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant...
| Author | Étienne Balibar |
| ISBN | 0860915425 |
Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and to the contradictions of the nation-state?...
| Author | Arjun Appadurai |
| ISBN | 0816627932 |
The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai...
