The postcolonial aura
Subtitle: Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism
By: Arif Dirlik
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780813332499
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Historiography; Postkolonialismus; Culture; Study and teaching; Nord-Süd-Beziehungen; Kapitalismus; Weltwirtschaft; Postcolonialism
Other titles: Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism
Description: The era of global capitalism calls for new global relations, informed by a grasp of contemporary structures of economic, political, and cultural power and by memories of earlier visions of society. Otherwise, Arif Dirlik argues, Eurocentrism and ethnic diversity find expression in conflict.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: postcoloniality and the perspective of history; title: Culturalism as hegemonic ideology and liberating practice; title: The postcolonial aura: Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism; title: The global in the local; title: Chinese history and the question of Orientalism; title: There is more in the Rim than meets the eye: thoughts on the "Pacific idea"; title: Three worlds or one, or many?: the reconfiguration of global relations under contemporary capitalism; title: Postcolonial or postrevolutionary?: the problem of history in postcolonial criticism; title: The postmodernization of production and its organization: flexible production, work, and culture; title: The past as legacy and project: postcolonial criticism in the perspective of indigenous historicism.