Title:
Europe and its shadows : coloniality after empire / Hamid Dabashi.
Author:
Dabashi, Hamid, 1951- author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: What's in a word: "Europe"? -- Europe: a mobile army of metaphors -- Europe, shadows, coloniality, empire -- Whence and wherefore "Europe"? -- Europe and its shadows -- The postcolonial paradox -- Europe: the indefinite jest -- Mapping beyond the postcolonial artworld -- Is peace possible? -- Conclusion: Wherefore should we stand in the plague of custom and permit?
Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.0Frantz Fanon's assessment that "Europe is literally the creation of the Third World" is still true today; but in more than one sense for the colonial has always been embedded in the capital, and the capital within the colonial. As the condition of coloniality shifts, so have the dividing lines between coloniser and colonised, and this shift calls for a reappraisal of our understanding of nationalism, xenophobia and sectarianism as the dangerous indices of the emerging worlds.0As the far-right populists captivate minds across Europe and Brexit upsets the balance of power in the European Union, this book, from a major scholar of postcolonial thought, is a timely and transformative intervention.
Publisher:
Pluto Press,
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
0745338410
9780745338415
0745338402
9780745338408
9781786803986
9781786804006
9781786803993
Subject:
Postcolonialism -- Europe.
Imperialism -- Influence.
Refugees -- Europe -- History -- 21st century.
Xenophobia.
Diplomatic relations.
Historiography.
Politics and government.
Postcolonialism.
Refugees.
Xenophobia.
Imperialismus
Postkolonialismus
Europe -- Colonies -- History.
Europe -- Historiography.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Europe -- Foreign relations.
Europe.
Europa
History.
Informational works.
Contents:
Introduction: What's in a word: "Europe"? -- Europe: a mobile army of metaphors -- Europe, shadows, coloniality, empire -- Whence and wherefore "Europe"? -- Europe and its shadows -- The postcolonial paradox -- Europe: the indefinite jest -- Mapping beyond the postcolonial artworld -- Is peace possible? -- Conclusion: Wherefore should we stand in the plague of custom and permit?
Physical Description:
216 pages : illustrations ;
Publication Date:
2019.
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