Description
Book SynopsisEurope as we've known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.
Trade Review'Cesaire's 'Discourse on Colonialism' denounces what is perpetrated in the name of Europe. 'Europe and its Shadows' raises a more radical question: What is 'Europe'?' -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of 'Postcolonial Bergson'
'A passionate and erudite reflection on the aftermath of Europe. Demonstrating the limits of the frequent, yet reactionary, defenses of Europe from left and right, Dabashi invites us to consider the geographies of imagination, thought, and praxis that appear behind the shadows of capitalism and coloniality. A crucial text to advance post- and decolonial thinking across the Global South' -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of 'Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity'
'I have several books about Europe on my book-shelf. Some are apologetic and celebratory, others are critical and reflective. All of them are written by Europeans. Hamid Dabashi's will be the first that takes Europe as an object of study and no longer only the home of thinking subjects' -- Walter D. Mignolo, author of 'The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options'
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction—What’s in a Word: “Europe”?
1. Europe: A Mobile Army of Metaphors
2. Europe, Shadows, Coloniality, Empire
3. Whence and Wherefore “Europe”?
4. Europe and its Shadows
5. The Postcolonial Paradox
6. Europe: The Indefinite Jest
7. Mapping beyond the Postcolonial Artworld
8. Is Peace Possible? Conclusion—Wherefore Should We Stand in the Plague of Custom and Permit?
Notes
Index
