Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship free ebook download

Category:
Sociology

Views: 69
Likes: 199

Catalogue

Author(s):	Leela Gandhi

Date:	2006	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0822337150
Pages:	264	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	Gustavi	Upload Date:	10/23/2019 5:40:11 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

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. Forsters 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, at the end of the nineteenth century. Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditionsincluding homosexuality, vegetarianism, animal rights, spiritualism, and aestheticismunited against imperialism and forged strong bonds with colonized subjects and cultures.

Gandhi weaves together the stories of a number of South Asian and European friendships that flourished between 1878 and 1914, tracing the complex historical networks connecting figures like the English socialist and homosexual reformer Edward Carpenter and the young Indian barrister M. K. Gandhi, or the Jewish French mystic Mirra Alfassa and the Cambridge-educated Indian yogi and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, Affective Communities challenges homogeneous portrayals of the West and its role in relation to anticolonial struggles. Drawing on Derridas theory of friendship, Gandhi puts forth a powerful new model of the political: one that finds in friendship a crucial resource for anti-imperialism and transnational collaboration.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
2613343	Book	https://novafile.com/ioitkaeqvwgi...		40.70	Gustavi

Tags: Affective Anticolonial Communities Fin-de-Siecle Friendship Politics Radicalism Thought

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: