Affective Communities - Anticolonial Thought, Fin De Siecle Radicalism, Politics of

Informationen zum Autor Leela Gandhi Klappentext Investigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography. Zusammenfassung Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914 Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ix 1. Introduction: Affective Communities 1 2. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 13 3. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 34 4. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 67 5. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 115 6. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 142 7. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177 Notes 191 Index 237

Product details

• Authors: Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, Leela Gandhi
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822337034
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3703-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education