Enlightenment in the Colony The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

Name: Enlightenment in the Colony The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
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ISBN: 9780691057323

ISBN-10: 069105732X

ISBN-13: 9780691057323

Edition: 2007

Authors: Aamir R. Mufti

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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 the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



A Note on Translation and Transliteration


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Prologue: Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism



Emergence: Europe and Its Others



Jewishness as Minority


Emergence of a European Problematic



Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture


From Daniel Deronda to A Passage to India



Displacements: On the Verge of 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


Notes


Works Cited


Index