UID:
almahu_9949385266102882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780367808914
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0367808919
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9781000412444
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100041244X
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9781000412406
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1000412407
Content:
"This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct 'vagabond' and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between 'native' itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The volume demonstrates the historical seismic breaks-from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the pre-modern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial-in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as 'vagabonds' in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily co-exist and mirror each other as sub-sets of a vast range of phenomenon, which may loosely be called 'vagabond(age)'. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies"--
Note:
Introduction -- Sacralizing the Vagabond: The Pre-History -- Colonial Bengal and the Case of Mimicry -- Insurgent Vagabond: The Postcolonial Turn -- Demographics and Territoriality -- Picturing the Vagrant: Resurrecting From the Abyss of Proscription -- Itinerancy as a Critique of Development -- The Politics of Orientalism and Pitfalls of Scripto-centricism -- The Chimeral Face of History: Buddhist Subversion Reconsidered -- Postcolonial Literature: The Return of the Repressed -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ray, Avishek, 1985- Vagabond in the South Asian imagination Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367407575
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367808914
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