Decolonization and humanism: the postcolonial vision of Rabindranath Tagore

"This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion betwe...

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1. Verfasser: Bannerji, Himani 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi, India Tulika Books 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion between the universalism of decolonization and particularism of an anti-humanism from an identitarian segmented perspective. A corrective is offered by exploring Rabindranath Tagore's (1861-1941) thoughts on hegemony and freedom, which he dislocates from the binary paradigm of tradition and modernity, thereby making a distinction between decolonization and cultural/ethnic nationalism. Tagore's writings provide the earliest classical example of anti-colonial critique."
Beschreibung:x, 234 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9788195839445

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