Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist protectionism. In Civilizing War, Nasser Mufti situates this contemporary conjuncture in the long history of British imperialism, demonstrating how civil war has been and continues to be integral to the politics of empire. Through comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis, Civilizing War...
Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with...
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin's fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India.
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin's fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlighten...
Traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common - yet ideologically divergent - concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development.
Traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntal...
Explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Mores to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form.
Explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African mis...
As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply - literally or metaphorically - an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing.
As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is sim...
Overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about 'world literature' by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism's emergence in France and circulation around the world from North and South America to East Asia.
Overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about 'world literature' by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturali...