Postcolonial Aura - Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism

This book presents a range of issues from cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. It offers "multi-historicalism," which presupposes a historically grounded conception of cultural difference.

List of contents

Preface -- Credits -- Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History -- Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practice -- The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism -- The Global in the Local -- Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism -- There Is More in the Rim than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the “Pacific Idea” -- Three Worlds or One, or Many? The Reconfiguration of Global Relations Under Contemporary Capitalism -- Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism -- The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture -- The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism

About the author

Arif Dirlik is professor of history at Duke University.

Summary

This book presents a range of issues from cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. It offers "multi-historicalism," which presupposes a historically grounded conception of cultural difference.

Product details

• Authors: Arif Dirlik, Dirlik Arif
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1998
• EAN: 9780813332499
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3249-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropologie, Internationale Beziehungen, Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, International Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence