{"product_id":"affective-communities-9780822337157","title":"Affective Communities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAffective Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is outstanding. It stretches postcolonial theory well beyond its usual boundaries. Leela Gandhi successfully documents the anti-imperial affiliations and politics of certain marginalized subcultures in late-nineteenth-century Britain and Europe, and she shows what Indian nationalists owed to these traditions.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of \u003ci\u003eProvincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A very original and thought-provoking book, \u003ci\u003eAffective Communities\u003c\/i\u003e offers an outstanding contribution to postcolonial and queer studies. Leela Gandhi provides detailed, brilliant discussions of particular figures such as Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and M. K. Gandhi and the ways in which they interwove their various radical counter-cultural interests into larger political strategies of anticapitalist utopianism.”—Robert J. C. Young, author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAffective Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that challenges the founding principles of postcolonial theory not in order to reject its ambitions but to open new ways to approach these urgent issues. . . . This book is hard to put down, but it also invites frequent rereading as a guide and as a reformulation of the theoretically and politically complex terrain of anti-colonial and postcolonial theorising.” -- Linnell Secomb * Postcolonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“I admire the passion, integrity, and brilliance with which [Gandhi] makes her case. . . . This is a book to be savoured for its suggestive insights. . . . Its intellectual energy derives . . . from Gandhi’s inventive retrieval and analysis of forgotten texts . . . . ” -- Seth Koven * International History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Affective Communities 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 13\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 34\u003cbr\u003e 4. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 67\u003cbr\u003e 5. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 115\u003cbr\u003e 6. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 142\u003cbr\u003e 7. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177\u003cbr\u003e Notes 191\u003cbr\u003e Index 237","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040834391,"sku":"9780822337157","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337157.jpg?v=1730494338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affective-communities-9780822337157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}