TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaiwar,Vasant
TI  - The postcolonial Orient: the politics of difference and the project of provincialising Europe 
T2  - Historical materialism,
SN  - 9789004270442 (electronic book)
AV  - DS61.85 .K34 2014
U1  - 325/.30722 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Asia
KW  - India
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Difference (Philosophy)
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - World politics
KW  - 1989-
KW  - Relations
KW  - Europe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- A narrative of arrival -- 1989 and all that -- Postcolonial difference -- 2. Situating postcolonial studies -- Definitions : colonialism, for example -- Postcolonial modernisation -- Postcolonial populism -- Subaltern studies -- 3. Colonialism, modernity, postcolonialism -- Colonialism and modernity in a postcolonial framing -- History's ironic reversals -- Who is the 'subaltern' in postcolonial studies? -- 4. Provincialising Europe or exoticising India? Towards a historical and categorial critique of postcolonial studies -- Marx and difference in provincialising Europe -- The not-yet of historicism -- Why historicise? -- Tattooed by the exotic -- Under the sign of Heidegger, I : the woman's question -- Under the sign of Heidegger, II : imagined communities -- Lack/inadequacy or plenitude/creativity? -- Dominance without hegemony : historicism by another name? -- The constituent elements of colonial modernity -- Modernity as class struggle -- Orientalism and nativism -- Bahubol and the Muslim question -- 5. Uses and abuses of Marx -- Abstract labour, difference, history I and II -- The piano maker and the piano player : productive and unproductive labour -- Millennial toil as the 'nightmare of history' -- 'Bourgeois hegemony' and colonial rule -- Modernity in the 'fullest sense' -- Beyond the bourgeois revolution? Hegemony revisited -- The historic moment of colonial dominance in India -- A 'liberation from blinding bondage,' or the question of historicism -- Marxism and historicism -- 6. The postcolonial orient -- The play of difference, the merchandising of the exotic, tradition and neo-traditionalism -- The non-commissioned officers -- The orient as 'vanishing mediator' -- The unrenounceable project -- Provincialising Europe; Available to subscribing member institutions only
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004270442
ER  -