Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Antinomies of Modernity

Essays on Race, Orient, Nation

Edited by: Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar
With contributions by: Andrew E. Barnes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384564

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About this book

A collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development.

Author / Editor information

Vasant Kaiwar is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.

Sucheta Mazumdar is Associate Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market. From 1981 until 2002 they served as coeditors of the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Reviews

“Antinomies of Modernity is a fundamental contribution to scholarship decentering Eurocentric epistemic perspectives. Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar have collected impressive essays, including their own articles and introduction, showing the epistemic potential of ‘antinomies of modernity’ in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This collection makes a signal contribution toward a paradigm showing us the way beyond postmodernism and postcolonialism.“—Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

"Truly international in its engagement, Antinomies of Modernity is an important, original, and timely collection. As cultural studies turns global, we will need more anthologies like this one."—Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Aryan Model of History and the Oriental Renaissance: The Politics of Identity in an Age of Revolutions, Colonialism, and Nationalism Vasant Kaiwar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Aryanizing Projects, African ‘‘Collaborators,’’ and Colonial Transcripts Andrew E. Barnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu A. R. Venkatachalapathy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
An Anticolonial International? Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa Michael O. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
The ‘‘Moment of Manoeuvre’’: ‘‘Race,’’ Ethnicity, and Nation in Postapartheid South Africa Neville Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran Minoo Moallem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
The Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian Identity in the United States Sucheta Mazumdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 362

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Published: April 21, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384564