Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World (eBook)

Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa

G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, Premesh Lalu (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
366 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-79580-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Zusatzinfo: XXII, 366 p. 24 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: affect theory • Anti-Capitalism • anti-colonialism • Asia • Birth of the nation • colonial legacy • Decolonisation • Emancipation • history of emotions • intimacy • Nationalism • Solidarity
• ISBN-10: 3-030-79580-2 / 3030795802
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-79580-1 / 9783030795801