{"product_id":"antinomies-of-modernity-9780822330462","title":"Antinomies of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsserts that concepts of race, Orient, and nation have been crucial to efforts across the world to create a sense of place, belonging, and solidarity in the midst of the radical discontinuties wrought by global capitalism. This book includes essays that explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAntinomies of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is a fundamental contribution to scholarship decentering Eurocentric epistemic perspectives. Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar have collected impressive essays, including their own articles and introduction, showing the epistemic potential of ‘antinomies of modernity’ in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This collection makes a signal contribution toward a paradigm showing us the way beyond postmodernism and postcolonialism.“—Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"Truly international in its engagement,\u003ci\u003e Antinomies of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is an important, original, and timely collection. As cultural studies turns global, we will need more anthologies like this one.\"—Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar 1\u003cbr\u003e The Aryan Model of History and the Oriental Renaissance: The Politics of Identity in an Age of Revolutions, Colonialism, and Nationalism \/ Vasant Kaiwar 13\u003cbr\u003e Aryanizing Projects, African “Collaborators,\" and Colonial Transcripts \/ Andrew E. Barnes 62\u003cbr\u003e Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia \/ Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 98\u003cbr\u003e Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu \/ A. R. Venkatachalapathy 126\u003cbr\u003e An Anticolonial International?: Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa \/ Michael O. West 146\u003cbr\u003e The “Moment of Manoeuvre\": “Race,\" Ethnicity, and Nation in Postapartheid South Africa \/ Neville Alexander 180\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran \/ Minoo Moallem 196\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian Identity in the United States \/ Sucheta Mazumdar 223\u003cbr\u003e Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity \/ Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar 261\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography 299\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 325\u003cbr\u003e Index 329","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406031855959,"sku":"9780822330462","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822330462.jpg?v=1730494307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antinomies-of-modernity-9780822330462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}