The Postcolonial Orient The Politics Of Difference And The Project Of Provincialising Europe Lam Vasant Kaiwar by Vasant Kaiwar 9789004231863, 9004231862 instant download after payment.

In "The Postcolonial Orient," Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the post in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of Europe not to mention colonialism, modernity and difference are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism."