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Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies
and postcolonial theory - in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial
aspirations. With essays by leading scholars in the field, Postcolonial Enlightenment address issues central not only to literature and philosophy but also to natural history, religion, law, and the emerging sciences of man. The contributors situate a range of writers - from Hobbes and Herder, Behn and Burke, to Defoe and Diderot - in relation both to eighteenth-century colonial practices and to key concepts within current postcolonial theory concerning race,
globalization, human rights, sovereignty, and national and personal identity. By enlarging the temporal and geographic framework through which we read, the essays in this volume open up alternate genealogies for
categories, events and ideas central to the emergence of global modernity.
Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies
and postcolonial theory - in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial
aspirations. With essays by leading scholars in the field, Postcolonial Enlightenment address issues central not only to literature and philosophy but also to natural history, religion, law, and the emerging sciences of man. The contributors situate a range of writers - from Hobbes and Herder, Behn and Burke, to Defoe and Diderot - in relation both to eighteenth-century colonial practices and to key concepts within current postcolonial theory concerning race,
globalization, human rights, sovereignty, and national and personal identity. By enlarging the temporal and geographic framework through which we read, the essays in this volume open up alternate genealogies for
categories, events and ideas central to the emergence of global modernity.
Lynn Festa and Daniel Carey: Some Answers to the Question: 'What is
Postcolonial Enlightenment?'
Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty
1: Srinivas Aravamudan: Hobbes and America
2: David Lloyd: The Physiological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the
Colonial Context
Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial
Classifications
3: Daniel Carey: Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe, Slavery,
and Postcolonial Theory
4: Felicity Nussbaum: Between 'Oriental' and 'Blacks, So Called,'
1688-1788
5: Siraj Ahmed: Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War
Part Three: Nation, Colony, and Enlightenment Universality
6: Doris Garraway: Of Speaking Natives and Hybrid Philosophers: The
French Enlightenment Critique of Colonialism
7: Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun: Universalism, Diversity, and
the Postcolonial Enlightenment
8: Karen O'Brien: 'These Nations Newton Made his Own': Poetry,
Knowledge and British Imperial Globalisation
Suvir Kaul: Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire?
Daniel Carey is the author of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson:
Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (Cambridge,
2006), and editor of Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Blackwell,
2004) and Les voyages de Gulliver: mondes lointains ou mondes
proches (Presses universitaires de Caen, 2002). He is senior
lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland,
Galway.
Lynn Festa is the author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in
Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins, 2006). She has
taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
and is currently associate professor of English at Rutgers
University.
`Review from previous edition The Postcolonial Enlightenment:
Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, edited by
Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa, is a significant publication. The
eight essays, substantial introduction, and coda that make up this
collection mark an important development in both Enlightenment
studies and postcolonial criticism: each is considered in relation
to the other, addressing the previous critical neglect of the role
which
Enlightenment thought played in the construction and critique of
European colonial ideology.'
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