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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mufti, Aamir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Secularism > India > History.
Nationalism > India > History.
Muslims in literature.
Jews in literature.
Jews > Europe > Identity > History.
Liberalism > Europe > History.
Saracens in literature.
Musulmans dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Juifs > Europe > Identité > Histoire.
Libéralisme > Europe > Histoire.
RELIGION > Agnosticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Saracens in literature
Colonial influence
Jews > Identity
Jews in literature
Liberalism
Muslims in literature
Nationalism
Secularism
Muslim
Säkularismus
Nationalismus
Minorités > Inde > Histoire.
India > Colonial influence.
Europe
India
Indien
Juden.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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