David Scott

Conscripts of Modernity

The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses C.L.R. James's"The Black Jacobins" as a jumping-off point for a reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial concepts of history, politics, and agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334330
• ISBN-10: 082233433X
• Artikelnr.: 21653131

Autorenporträt

David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality and Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil. He is editor of the journal Small Axe.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1
1. Futures Past 23
2. Romanticism and the Longing for Anticolonial Revolution 58
3. Conscripts of Modernity 98
4. Toussaint's Tragic Dilemma 132
5. The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment 170
Epilogue 209
Notes 223
Acknowledgments 271
Index 273