The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31890-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the remapping of global relations, such remapping must be informed both by a grasp of contemporary structu

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dirlik, Arif

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Credits -- Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History -- Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practice -- The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism -- The Global in the Local -- Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism -- There Is More in the Rim than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea" -- Three Worlds or One, or Many? The Reconfiguration of Global Relations Under Contemporary Capitalism -- Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism -- The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture -- The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism

Über Autor(innen)

Arif Dirlik is professor of history at Duke University.