In his 2008 book, Translation and Identity in the Americas, Edwin Gentzler proposed a "fictional turn" to refer to translation in connection with the construction of identity in the Americas, a highly positive view of the role played by this activity since the arrival of the Eur…
"This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist international relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions and reveals multiple blind spots in both approaches. A critical …
"This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist international relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions and reveals multiple blind spots in both approaches. A critical …
Unter" Okzidentalismus"wird hier ein Diskurs abendländischer Hegemonieproduktion verstanden, der ein" orientalisiertes"Anderes in der muslimischen Diaspora und im politischen Islamismus verkörpert sieht." Okzidentalismuskritik"begreift Neo-Orientalismen und antimuslimische Rassi…
Unter>>Okzidentalismus<<wird hier ein Diskurs abendländischer Hegemonieproduktion verstanden, der ein>>orientalisiertes<<Anderes in der muslimischen Diaspora und im politischen Islamismus verkörpert sieht.>>Okzidentalismuskritik<<begreift Neo-Orientalismen und antimuslimische Ra…
"Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a tra…
This book offers an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.
The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the 19th century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from antiquity through feudalism to capitalism which could not have taken plac…