Title: Enchantments of modernity :
Authors: Dube, Saurabh
Date: 2009
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Physical description: xvi, 504 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Abstract: "Straddling a range of disciplinary perspectives and covering a variety of geographical regions, the contributors to Enchantments of modernity imaginatively explore questions of colonization and decolonization, memory and madness, affect and authority, and cosmopolitanism and fundamentalism. The authors incisively elaborate on issues of imperial power and nationalist knowledge, metropolitan histories and vernacular pasts, secular principles and democratic practices, and global economics and postcolonial politics."--P. [4] of cover.
Contents: 1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction / Saurabh Dube --- Effects: Colony and Nation --- 2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945 / Michel-Rolph Trouillot --- 3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference / Walter Mignolo --- 4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of Nations / Uday Singh Mehta --- 5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India / Deana Heath --- 6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity / Saurabh Dube --- 7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility / Milind Wakankar --- 8. Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram / Ajay Skaria --- 9. Illiberal Islam / Faisal Devji --- 10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonisation and the Politics of Culture / Dipesh Chakrabarty --- Affects: The Global and the Vernacular --- 11. Affect: What is it Good for? / William Mazarella --- 12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers. Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism / Craig Calhoun --- 13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism / Michael Herzfeld --- 14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan / Naveeda Khan --- 15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives / Veena Das (with assistance from Rajan Bhandari and Simi Bajaj) --- 16. The Time of Slavery / Saidiya Hartman --- 17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff --- 18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological Defence / Ashis Nandy.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civilization, Modern.; Colonies.; Colonization.; Decolonization.; Globalization.; Nation-state.; Nationalism.