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In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
作者简介
Lisa Lowe is Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and the coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, both also published by Duke University Press.
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真是借着这课读了些自己专业课上读不到的好书。。。
评分真是借着这课读了些自己专业课上读不到的好书。。。
评分真是借着这课读了些自己专业课上读不到的好书。。。
评分Modern liberalism- “unifying particularity, difference, or locality through universal concepts of reason and community.”
评分果然每个针对liberalism批评都会把Hegel抓出来当坏典型，也是心疼2333。对中国和印度的苦力（coolie）作为白人和black slavery之间的intermediary figure有很好的阐释，全球labor force流动的视角也很好，不过主要是通过殖民国现存的colonial archive进行批判阅读和知识生产（不然这个研究就很难做了语言和材料都是大问题），所以也会觉得有点可惜是个American studies。
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