Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation

by Andrew E. Barnes, Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar

Book Overview

Antinomies of Modernity asserts that concepts of race, Orient, and nation have been crucial to efforts across the world to create a sense of place, belonging, and solidarity in the midst of the radical discontinuities wrought by global capitalism. Emphasizing the continued salience at the beginning of the twenty-first century of these supposedly nineteenth-century ideas, the essays in this volume stress the importance of tracking the dynamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330466
• ISBN13: 9780822330462
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"