圖書標籤: 全球史 後殖民主義 文化史
发表于2024-12-23
The Intimacies of Four Continents pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
真是藉著這課讀瞭些自己專業課上讀不到的好書。。。
評分這本書著眼於19世紀至20世紀初文學和思想的考察,其思路的源頭是殖民帝國史/世界史研究中對於不同區域之物質關係聯絡,以及看似對立之思想(自由主義和殖民主義)的深層關聯的發現。對於自由主義話語的批判指齣其局限:看似普世的解放敘事其實忽略瞭殖民地的“人”之層級和殖民政策在19世紀的轉化(從奴役到強製雇傭勞動的生命政治)。對於資産階級文學(Vanity Fair)的閱讀則持社會史的視角:字裏行間發掘殖民勞動和貿易網絡作為歐洲社會生活的基礎的事實。對於第三世界/黑人思想傢(CLR James和Du Bois)的考察則著重闡發其思路中超越一地(民族國傢)、看到跨區域—世界的殖民地聯係的部分。
評分"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."
評分"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."
評分"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."
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The Intimacies of Four Continents pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024