{"product_id":"interimperiality-9781478010043","title":"Interimperiality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Notable for its recognition of the crucial, but often ignored, dialectical relationship between political economy and literary production, \u003ci\u003eInter-imperiality\u003c\/i\u003e provides powerful examples of how a scholar can engage with one problematic across disciplines, using literary texts as an anchor. This big, bold book is a major intervention in continuing debates on the emergence of literature in relation to a world defined by the phenomenon of empires of time and space.” -- Simon Gikandi, author of * Slavery and the Culture of Taste *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eInter-imperiality\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a transhistorical, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and decolonial analysis of the fundamentally relational processes that constitute imperial powers and individual lives. Polities and persons alike are enmeshed in shifting entanglements that enable coercion and violence as well as care and community. Aiming to ‘honor the struggles and the sustaining practices’ that are elided when this existential interdependence is disavowed, Doyle chronicles a longue durée of dialectical state and identity (co)formation that spans the eleventh to the twentieth centuries.” * American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eInter-imperiality \u003c\/i\u003emight be described as an attempt to reiterate the ontological insights of Hegel regarding the dialectical truth of our lived identity, extended and expanded through the \u003ci\u003elongue durée\u003c\/i\u003e of Braudel, but couched crucially in the terminology of feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought. It is a paean, among other things, to the untold history of female, non-Western labor. . . . There is a fervor and a seriousness to Doyle’s desire to expand and decenter contemporary global historiography, which is inspiring to read.” -- Ian Almond * Comparative Literature *\u003cbr\u003e“How did European colonialism happen? Why is racism still permeating many quarters of life? How can we prevent the existence of colonialism and racism? \u003ci\u003eInter-imperiality \u003c\/i\u003einnovatively engages these questions. . . . Doyle’s call for a return to the avowal of the materialist dialectic and for ‘care, and cure’ presents inspiring new ways for thinking about the future of decolonial studies.” -- Lidan Lin * Modern Fiction Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Theoretical Introduction. Between States  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e  68\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Convergence and Revolt\u003cbr\u003e 3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires  95\u003cbr\u003e 4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions  121\u003cbr\u003e 5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth Century  156\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Persisting Temporalities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of This World\u003c\/i\u003e  195\u003cbr\u003e 7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's \u003ci\u003eThe Pagoda\u003c\/i\u003e  227\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. A River Between  251\u003cbr\u003e Notes  255\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  331\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408986874199,"sku":"9781478010043","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010043.jpg?v=1730504978","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interimperiality-9781478010043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}