Intimacies of Four Continents

Lowe Lisa Lowe

Description

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human" is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.

Sujets

• Literary theory

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 27 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375647
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

THEIntImacIes OF Four contInents

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THEIntImacIes OF Four contInents LIsa Lowe

Duke University Press ûà à ôô 2015

© 2015 ûé Ûéŝ éŝŝ Ā ŝ éŝéé é  é Ûé Śàéŝ ô Āéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ éŝé  ô ô  éŝçéŝé ûŝ Śéçéŝ

à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà ôé, ŝà. hé àçéŝ ô ôû çôéŝ / ŝà ôé. àéŝ ç çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. isbn 978-0-8223-5863-3 (àçôé : à. àé) isbn 978-0-8223-5875-6 (. : à. àé) isbn 978-0-8223-7564-7 (é-ôô) 1. éàŝ. 2. é. 3. Śàé àé. 4. Çôéçé. 5. Çzàô, ôé. i. é. jc574.l688 2015 320.51—ç23 2014046258

Çôé à:Nésôn’s Sp n à Bôé, © à Śôàé mbe. Ā ŝ éŝéé, dacs/ ars,  2014. ôô çôûéŝ Śéé éà Gàé, ôô, à àôà àé ûŝéû, Gééç, Û.

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contents

chapter 1.the IntImacIes OF Four contInents1 * chapter 2.autobIography OF out empIre43 * chapter 3.a FetIshIsm OF coLonIaL commodItIes73 * chapter 4.the ruses OF LIberty101 * chapter 5.Freedoms yet to come135 * acknowLedgments177 * notes181 * reFerences269 * Index305 *

1.1Cung Sugà Càné n Tndàd, çà éŝ (1836). ôà ôWés ïndà Sçénéy,  çà éŝ. © hé ŝ à ôà.

chapter 1 the IntImacIes OF Four contInents

 ŝû éŝàéŝ é ôé ôŝçûé çôéçôŝ ééé é éé- éçé ô Éûôéà éàŝ, ŝéé çôôàŝ  é Āéçàŝ, é àŝààç Āçà ŝàé àé, à é Éàŝ éŝ à Çà àéŝ  é àé ééé à éà ééé çéûéŝ. Cubàn Côuné- pôn(1940), éàô Ôz éŝçé “éôéŝ ô à ôû qûàéŝ ô é ôé” ô àôé  é “é ô” ô ôûçé ôàççô à  ŝûà ô Éûôéà çôŝûô. Ôŝé à ŝûà é é ŝ- ôéŝ ô çôôà ŝééŝ, àé éôéŝ, à ŝàé àô, ôôé  Çéŝé à ôé àŝ, Ôz çôéé à ŝûà àŝ “ûàô” ô é ŝà. Ç. . . Jàéŝ àŝŝéé é Bàçk Jàçôbns(1938), à é ééé-çéû ŝàé ŝôçé  Śà ôô çôéçé Éûôé, Āçà, à é Āéçàŝ. é éçàé à é ôûéŝ çéàé  é ŝàé-àŝé ŝôçééŝ  é Āéçàŝ àé ŝé ô é éç ôûéô- ŝé, ôûç é çôôŝ ô é “ŝ ô à” éàé  é  éôûô ô 1789. héŝé ûéŝàŝ à é “é ô” ô Éûô- éà ŝééŝ, éôûŝ éôéŝ, Āçàŝ, à Āŝàŝ  é Āéçàŝ àŝ àé éàé ô é ŝé ô éà ôé àé é ŝà-  ô ô  éŝàô. é  ô  é éŝé à é àçûà ô é àôû éŝé “àçéŝ ô ôû çôéŝ,” éŝé ŝéààé ŝçôàŝ àôû ŝé ŝôçééŝ, éôéŝ, ô éôŝ. hé ôé - ŝô ô ôéé ô àçàéç ŝçéŝ, ôçûŝé ô ŝçéé àéàŝ à ôéçŝ ô ééŝ ô é ôé àôà ûéŝ, àŝ ôôû