Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World - Brossura

Ray, Amit

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415542952 ISBN 13: 9780415542951

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the 'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek to occupy and modify spaces created by the scholarly discourses of Orientalism: the study of the East (‘Orient’) via Western (‘European’) epistemological frameworks. Tracing the varying fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. The rhetorical constructions of East and West deployed by both colonizer and colonized, as well as attempts to synthesize or transcend such constructions, became crucial to conceptions of the ‘modern.’ Eventually, Indian desire for political sovereignty together with the deeply racialized formations of imperialism produced a shift in the dialogic relationship between South Asia and Europe that had been initiated and sustained by orientalists. This impetus pushed scholarly discourse about India in Europe, North America and elsewhere, out of what had been a direct role in politics and theology and into high ‘Literary’ culture.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Amit Ray is Assistant Professor of Literature at Rochester Institute of Technology. His recent work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities, The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas and the collection, Romantic Orientalism, edited by Michael J. Franklin.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415542952
• ISBN 13: 9780415542951
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 200
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania