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Empire in Question de Antoinette Burton

Empire in Question

Autor Antoinette Burton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2011

Considerăm Empire in Question o lucrare de referință pentru înțelegerea modului în care istoriografia britanică a fost radical transformată în ultimele trei decenii. Structura volumului urmează o logică evolutivă, debutând cu o introducere autobiografică în care Antoinette Burton explică modul în care feminismul și critica postcolonială i-au modelat rigoarea metodologică. Volumul este organizat în două părți distincte: prima secțiune cartografiază culturile imperiale, chestionând însăși ideea de „națiune” britanică, în timp ce a doua parte pune teoria în practică, examinând arhivele prin prisma genului și a colaborării feministe. Descoperim aici o metodologie care refuză obiectivitatea neutră, preferând în schimb o analiză critică a modului în care puterea imperială circulă în multiple direcții. Această antologie extinde cadrul propus de The New Imperial Histories Reader de Stephen Howe, aducând o perspectivă mai personală și mai aplicată asupra modului în care „noua istorie imperială” a fost construită din interiorul mediului academic. Față de abordările interdisciplinare din A New Imperial History de Kathleen Wilson, lucrarea lui Burton se distinge printr-o autoreflexivitate rară, culminând cu o codă în care autoarea își recunoaște propriile lacune teoretice și pledează pentru repoziționarea istoriei britanice în contextul istoriei globale. În contextul operei sale, Empire in Question servește drept fundament teoretic pentru lucrări ulterioare precum The Trouble with Empire sau Animalia. Dacă în textele recente Burton se concentrează pe disrupție și pe rolul speciilor non-umane în imperiu, volumul de față explică geneza acestor preocupări, rămânând un instrument pedagogic esențial pentru studenții și profesorii care doresc să analizeze mecanismele de control și reprezentare ale Marii Britanii moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349020
ISBN-10: 0822349027
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru studenții și cercetătorii în istorie și studii culturale care doresc să înțeleagă tranziția de la istoria imperială clasică la abordările moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care rasa și genul au modelat identitatea britanică. Este un ghid metodologic despre cum se pot interoga arhivele și cum se poate scrie istoria fără a ignora vocile marginalizate.

Despre autor

Antoinette Burton este profesoară de istorie la University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, fiind una dintre cele mai influente voci în definirea „noii istorii imperiale”. Specializată în istoria modernă a Marii Britanii și a imperiului său, Burton a explorat extensiv intersecțiile dintre gen, rasă și colonialism. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Gender History și Biocultural Empire, este recunoscută pentru modul în care provoacă narațiunile tradiționale despre supremația europeană și pentru integrarea perspectivelor postcoloniale în curriculumul academic de istorie.

Descriere scurtă

Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her teaching and writing, Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in multiple directions, argued that race must be incorporated into history-writing, and emphasized that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. Empire in Question includes Burton’s groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as finely-honed essays in which she brings theory to bear on topics from Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India. Burton’s autobiographical introduction describes how her early encounters with feminist and postcolonial critique led to her convictions that we must ask who counts as a subject of imperial history, while maintaining a healthy scepticism regarding the claims to objectivity that shape much modern history writing. In the coda, she candidly reflects on shortcomings in her own thinking and in the new imperial history, and she argues that British history must be repositioned in relation to world history. Much of Burton’s writing emerged from her teaching; Empire in Question is meant to engage students and teachers in debates about how to think about British imperialism in the light of contemporary events.

Cuprins

Foreword / Mrinalini Sinha xi
Preface. A Note on the Logic of the Volume xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods 1
Part I. Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures
1. Rules of Thumb: British History and "Imperial Culture" in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) 27
2. Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating "British" History (1997) 41
3. Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism, and the Domains of History (2001) 56
4. Déjà Vu All over Again (2002) 68
5. When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century" (2003) 77
6. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories (2004) 94
7. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration (2008, with Jean Allman) 106
Part II. Theory into Practice: Doing Critical Imperial History
8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India (1995) 123
9. Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to Make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874¿75 (1996) 151
10. Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain (1996) 174
11. From Child Bride to "Hindoo Lady": Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual Respectability of Imperial Britain (1998) 184
12. Tongues United: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy (2000) 214
13. India Inc.?: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Empire of Things (2001) 241
14. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2006) 257
Coda. Empire of/and the World?: The Limits of British Imperialism
15. Getting Outside of the Global: Repositioning British Imperialism in World History 275
Afterword / C. A. Bayly 293
Notes 303
Index 381

Recenzii

“The Development of the “new imperial history” is considered in this book by a scholar who helped to shape the field. Antoinette Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in many directions and that race must be incorporated into history writing, and argued that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. This collection of essays includes her groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as essays in which she views topics from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India through the lens of theory, and a coda in which she candidly assesses shortcomings in her own thinking.” - Times Higher Education, February 23rd 2012

“No one has done more than Antoinette Burton to challenge the autonomies of national history, indeed the very ‘certainty of the nation as an analytical category’ itself. Inspired both by the archive’s possibilities and the promise of feminist and postcolonial critique, she turns the ever-seductive sufficiencies of British history radically inside out. While brilliantly showing how and why the histories of nation and empire have to be written together, Empire in Question also documents the continuing transformations of the discipline of history since the 1980s, speaking eloquently to specialists across many different fields.” - Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society

“Antoinette Burton’s body of work is central to the debates over national, imperial, and postcolonial histories. Empire in Question is a most welcome collection of her essays and required reading for anyone in this field. It contains classics, less well-known pieces, and new work. Characteristically, it is full of questions and challenges, both to herself and to her readers. We see a critical and imaginative historian at work, fully engaged both with the times in which she lives, and the times she evokes for us in the past.” - Catherine Hall, University College London


"The Development of the "new imperial history" is considered in this book by a scholar who helped to shape the field. Antoinette Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in many directions and that race must be incorporated into history writing, and argued that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. This collection of essays includes her groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as essays in which she views topics from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India through the lens of theory, and a coda in which she candidly assesses shortcomings in her own thinking." - Times Higher Education, February 23rd 2012 "No one has done more than Antoinette Burton to challenge the autonomies of national history, indeed the very 'certainty of the nation as an analytical category' itself. Inspired both by the archive's possibilities and the promise of feminist and postcolonial critique, she turns the ever-seductive sufficiencies of British history radically inside out. While brilliantly showing how and why the histories of nation and empire have to be written together, Empire in Question also documents the continuing transformations of the discipline of history since the 1980s, speaking eloquently to specialists across many different fields." - Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society "Antoinette Burton's body of work is central to the debates over national, imperial, and postcolonial histories. Empire in Question is a most welcome collection of her essays and required reading for anyone in this field. It contains classics, less well-known pieces, and new work. Characteristically, it is full of questions and challenges, both to herself and to her readers. We see a critical and imaginative historian at work, fully engaged both with the times in which she lives, and the times she evokes for us in the past." - Catherine Hall, University College London