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Title:

After colonialism : imperial histories and postcolonial displacements / edited by Gyan Prakash.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

viii, 352 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Colonies--History.
Imperialism--History.

Other Authors:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Colonialism and the disciplines -- Secular interpretation, the geographical element, and the methodology of imperialism -- Africa in history: the end of universal narratives -- Haiti, history, and the gods -- Why not tourist art? Significant silences in Native American museum representations. Colonialism and cultural difference -- The effacement of difference: colonialism and origins of nationalism in Diderot and Herder -- Retribution and remorse: the interaction between the administration and the protestant mission in early colonial Formosa -- Coping with (civil) death: the Christian convert's rights of passage in colonial India -- Exclusion and solidarity: labor Zionism and Arab workers in Palestine, 1897-1929 -- The postcolonization of the (Latin) American experience: a reconsideration of "colonialism," "postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje". Colonial discourse and its displacements -- Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of seventeenth-century Peru -- Ethnographic travesties: colonial realism, French feminism, and the case of Elissa Rhaïs --In a spirit of calm violence.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

ISBN:

9780691037431 (CL)
0691037434 (CL)
9780691037424 (PA) :
0691037426 (PA) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30625117

LCCN:

94021310

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)