{"product_id":"enlightenment-in-the-colony-the-jewish-question-and-the-crisis-of-postcolonial-culture-9780691057323","title":"Enlightenment in the Colony  The Jewish Question","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the history of the \"Jewish question\" to a discussion - one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times. This title identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what the author calls \"the exemplary crisis of minority\" - Jewishness in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By the late eighteenth-century...the 'protean Jew' was...'neither outsider nor one of us'. Mufti begins with the 'paradigmatic narratives' of minority existence within a liberal nation state...which constituted the so-called Jewish Question in modern Europe. He is especially concerned with the processes of secularization...[and focuses] on the connections between the violent resolution of the 'Jewish Question' and the formation of 'majoritarian' cultures. Mufti [provides] nuanced and historically grounded accounts of the 'Jewish Question'. At a time when these issues have assumed a renewed urgency--under the febrile sign of a 'new' anti-Semitism--[this] outstanding [book offers] a contextualized and scholarly approach to the subject.\"--Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement \"Aamir Mufti's Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture offers the most substantial theoretical intervention, one that is likely to have a significant impact on the field in future years.\"--New Literatures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Translation and Transliteration ix  Acknowledgments xi  Abbreviations xv      Prologue: Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism 1      Part I Emergence: Europe and Its Others     Chapter One: Jewishness as Minority Emergence of a European Problematic 37      Chapter Two: Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture From Daniel Deronda to A Passage to India 91      Part II: Displacements: On the Verge of India     Chapter Three: Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad Discovering India 129      Chapter Four: Saadat Hasan Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God 177      Chapter Five: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Towards a Lyric History of India 210  Epilogue: In My Beginning Is My End Jewish Exile and the Language of English India 244  Notes 263  Works Cited 295  Index 315","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359101911383,"sku":"9780691057323","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691057323.jpg?v=1754123590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enlightenment-in-the-colony-the-jewish-question-and-the-crisis-of-postcolonial-culture-9780691057323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}