Qadri Ismail

Culture and Eurocentrism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term's relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts - nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization- at the confluence of several disciplines. Culture, it contends, doesn't describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783486359
• Artikelnr.: 44170346

Autorenporträt

Qadri Ismail is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Culture as Problem / 1. Culture/Race/Nature: Arnold
Tylor / 2. (Civil) Society/Nature: Hobbes
Locke
Macaulay / 3. Imagination/Imitation: Shelley
Hobbes
Macaulay
Kipling
Malinowski. / 4. Culture/s: Williams
Leavis
Spencer / 5. '"Race"/Cultures: Du Bois
Fletcher
Boas
Turner
"Jefferson" / Conclusion: Modernity
Eurocentrism
Postcoloniality / Bibliography / Index