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Format: Online-Ressource (343 p)

ISBN: 9780691057323

Content: Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue: Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism; Part I: Emergence: Europe and Its Others; Chapter One: Jewishness as Minority Emergence of a European Problematic; Chapter Two: Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture From Daniel Deronda to A Passage to India; Part II: Displacements: On the Verge of India; Chapter Three: Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad Discovering India; Chapter Four: Saadat Hasan Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God , Chapter Five: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Towards a Lyric History of IndiaEpilogue: In My Beginning Is My End Jewish Exile and the Language of English India; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400827664

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691057323

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Enlightenment in the Colony : The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (344 pages) : , illustrations.

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9781400827664

Content: Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization. Enlightenment in the Colony calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Prologue. Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism -- , Chapter One. Jewishness as Minority -- , Chapter Two. Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture -- , Chapter Three. Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad -- , Chapter Four. Saadat Hasan Manto -- , Chapter Five. Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- , Epilogue. In My Beginning Is My End -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400827664

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Format: 1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition: Course Book

ISBN: 1-282-08785-1 , 9786612087851 , 1-4008-2766-3

Content: Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization. Enlightenment in the Colony calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Prologue. Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism -- , Part I. Emergence: Europe and Its Others -- , Chapter One. Jewishness as Minority -- , Chapter Two. Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture -- , Part II. Displacements: On the Verge of India -- , Chapter Three. Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad -- , Chapter Four. Saadat Hasan Manto -- , Chapter Five. Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- , Epilogue. In My Beginning Is My End -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-05731-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-05732-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400827664