图书标签: 全球史 后殖民主义 文化史
发表于2024-09-09
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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.
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.
"The modern distinction between definitions of the human and those to whom such definitions do not extend is the condition of possibility for Western liberalism, and not its particular exception."
评分这本书着眼于19世纪至20世纪初文学和思想的考察,其思路的源头是殖民帝国史/世界史研究中对于不同区域之物质关系联络,以及看似对立之思想(自由主义和殖民主义)的深层关联的发现。对于自由主义话语的批判指出其局限:看似普世的解放叙事其实忽略了殖民地的“人”之层级和殖民政策在19世纪的转化(从奴役到强制雇佣劳动的生命政治)。对于资产阶级文学(Vanity Fair)的阅读则持社会史的视角:字里行间发掘殖民劳动和贸易网络作为欧洲社会生活的基础的事实。对于第三世界/黑人思想家(CLR James和Du Bois)的考察则着重阐发其思路中超越一地(民族国家)、看到跨区域—世界的殖民地联系的部分。
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。
评分"The modern distinction between definitions of the human and those to whom such definitions do not extend is the condition of possibility for Western liberalism, and not its particular exception."
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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The Intimacies of Four Continents pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024