The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory

by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa

Book Overview

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and
venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199229147
• ISBN13: 9780199229147
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"