Decolonization and humanism: the postcolonial vision of Rabindranath Tagore /
This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion between the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Tulika Books,
2024.
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| Summary: | This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion between the universalism of decolonization and particularism of an anti-humanism from an identitarian segmented perspective. A corrective is offered by exploring Rabindranath Tagore's (1861-1941) thoughts on hegemony and freedom, which he dislocates from the binary paradigm of tradition and modernity, thereby making a distinction between decolonization and cultural/ethnic nationalism. Tagore's writings provide the earliest classical example of anti-colonial critique. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 234 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9788195839445 8195839444 |