In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the
relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the
late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the
links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western
liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe
connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the
expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract
promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within
colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are
enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human"
is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples
who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are
assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism
alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been
separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past,
examining events well documented in archives, and those matters
absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant.
Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted
national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating
our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and
ultimately, knowledge itself.
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