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Enlightenment in the colony : the Jewish question and the crisis of postcolonial culture /

Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mufti, Aamir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue : towards a genealogy of postcolonial secularism
  • Jewishness as minority : emergence of a European problematic
  • Inscriptions of minority in British late imperial culture : from Daniel Deronda to A passage to India
  • Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad : discovering India
  • Saadat Hasan Manto : a greater story writer than God
  • Faiz Ahmed Faiz : towards a lyric history of India
  • Epilogue : in my beginning is my end : Jewish exile and the language of English India.