Gyanendra (Hrsg.) Pandey

Unarchived Histories

The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world

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For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to &quote;madness&quote; as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or &quote;trifling.&quote; It is the status of being exiled within - by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-93148-5
EAN: 9781317931485
Produktnummer: 16965437
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'728 KB
Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, at Emory University, USA. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006) and A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the United States (2013), and editor of Subaltern Citizens and their Histories (2010) and Subalternity and Difference (2011), both published in the Routledge series 'Intersections'.