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Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power - Empire's Individuals (Hardcover)
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Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power - Empire's Individuals (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of
imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and
function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial
power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on
imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West
has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp
the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of
imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late
capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly
shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an
ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of
desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of
western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and
cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically
eclectic approach - drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism,
postcolonial theory, and Marxism - with the aim of forwarding
current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different
branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial
subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new
questions related to the signification of otherness in European
expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in
post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of
bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of
geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and
space. This book's diversity in terms of approach, historical
scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research
and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including
Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and
Globalization.
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