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India - The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism (Hardcover, New)
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India - The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism (Hardcover, New)
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Germans of various disciplines not only encouraged but actively
framed a discourse that gendered India through voyeuristic
descriptions of the male and female body. This study challenges the
German's claim to an encounter with India projected on a spiritual
plane of communion between kindred spirits and shows that such
supposedly apolitical encounters are really strategies of
domination. German participation in European Expansion can be
perceived as collusion with the British imperialist administration
inasmuch as it provided the latter with a justification for
existing colonial rule and anticipated future colonial activity.
Despite the optimism placed in the post of post-colonialism, the
continued presence of European Orientalism can be felt in the late
20th century, hidden under the mantel of global capitalism.
Although Germany did not colonize India territorially, Germans of
various disciplines not only encouraged but actively framed a
discourse that gendered India through voyeuristic descriptions of
the male and female body. German orientalist experiences of Hindu
India have typically been excluded from post-colonial debates
concerning European expansion, but this study challenges the
German's claim to an encounter with India projected on a spiritual
plane of communion between kindred spirits and shows that such
supposedly apolitical encounters are really strategies of
domination. German participation can be perceived as collusion with
the British imperialist administration inasmuch as it provided the
latter with a justification for existing colonial rule and
anticipated future colonial activity. Murti sheds light on the role
that missionaries and women, two groups that have been ignored or
glossed over until now, played in authorizing and strengthening the
colonial discourse. The intertextual strategies adopted by the
various partners in the colonialist dialog clearly show that German
involvement in India was not a disinterested, academic venture.
These writings also betray a bias against women that has not been
regarded, until now, as a key issue in the literature discussing
Orientalism. Missionaries often actively fostered the British
colonial agenda, while women travelers, even those who traveled as
a means of escaping patriarchal structures at home, invariably
abetted the colonizer. Despite the optimism placed in the post of
post-colonialism, Murti concludes that the continued presence of
European Orientalism can be felt in the late 20th century, hidden
under the mantel of global capitalism.
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