The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
by Daniel Carey
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Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often show more unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominio show lessTags
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