Mufti Enlightenment in the Colony

The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2766-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Aamir R. Mufti is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives and the editor of 'Critical Secularism,' a special issue of the journal boundary 2.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mufti, Aamir R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Translation and Transliteration ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xv

Prologue: Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism 1

Part I Emergence: Europe and Its Others

Chapter One: Jewishness as Minority Emergence of a European Problematic 37

Chapter Two: Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture From Daniel Deronda to A Passage to India 91

Part II: Displacements: On the Verge of India

Chapter Three: Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad Discovering India 129

Chapter Four: Saadat Hasan Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God 177

Chapter Five: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Towards a Lyric History of India 210

Epilogue: In My Beginning Is My End Jewish Exile and the Language of English India 244

Notes 263

Works Cited 295

Index 315

Über Autor(innen)

Aamir R. Mufti is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives and the editor of "Critical Secularism," a special issue of the journal boundary 2.