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The Intimacies of Four Continents

Autor Lisa Lowe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 2015
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which the human is universalized and freed by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822358756
ISBN-10: 0822358751
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

1. The Intimacies of Four Continents 1

2. Autobiography Out of Empire 43

3. A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities 73

4. The Ruses of Liberty 101

5. Freedoms Yet to Come 135

Acknowledgments 177

Notes 181

References 269

Index 305

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