Affective Communities Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

Name: Affective Communities Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
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ISBN: 9780822337157

ISBN-10: 0822337150

ISBN-13: 9780822337157

Edition: 2006

Authors: Leela Gandhi, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz

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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the "friend" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain,…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.12" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Leela Gandhi is professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the founding coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies and the author, most recently, of Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship.



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Affective Communities



Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship



Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism



Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siï¿½cle



God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century



Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference



Conclusion: An Immature Politics


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