Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities

AvIain Chambers

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Engelska, 2017

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Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond local and national confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple modernity.

Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony construction of the figure of the migrant and ‘other’ as a disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:152
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786603333
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Serie:Radical Cultural Studies
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x undefined mm

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Iain Chambers is presently Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples where he has been Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, and presently coordinates the PhD programme in ‘Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone world'. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series of postcolonial analyses of the formation of the modern Mediterranean.

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In this compelling book Iain Chambers shows migration from, and connections with, the South to be central to the story of Europe, but in paradoxical ways. This globality has been both systematically denied and cited in framing Europe as exception and exceptional, at odds with people and traditions from an imagined elsewhere. Chambers locates this duality at the heart of the European apparatus of power, suggesting that if not addressed as such, it will always obstruct a more extensive understanding of Europe as trans-cultural. An original, powerful and much needed book in these terrifying times.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements/1. The Algebra of Power/2. A Tattered Map/3. Migrating Modernities/4. Lessons from the South/5. Scarred Landscapes/6. Folds in Time/References/Index