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May 13, 2022 · x, 200 pages : 22 cm Postcolonial Theory is a critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi maps out this field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism.
Postcolonial Theory is a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi is the first to clearly map out this field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism.
Leela Gandhi was born in Bombay, and she studied in Delhi and Oxford. She is John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. Her publications include Postcolonial Theory (revised edition, 2019), The Common Cause (2015), Affective Communities (2006), and Measures of Home: Selected Poems (2000).
the Dandi Kutir Museum which showcases the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The hotel features 318 rooms, two extraordinary restaurants, an elaborate tea-lounge and boardrooms, an array of state- of - the- art meeting and event spaces that are matched by legendary Leela experiences.
Apr 1, 2010 · Leela Gandhi discussed a range of approaches to ethics in relation to colonialism March 30 in Goldwin Smith Hall's Lewis Auditorium. Gandhi, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, delivered the inaugural talk in the College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Lecture Series. She contributes to the field of postcolonial theory and ...
Apr 3, 1998 · Leela Gandhi surveys the entire field of postcolonial studies and outlines the connections beween postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism. She assesses the contribution of major theorists such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha as well as highlighting postcolonialism's relationship to earlier thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Oct 9, 2015 · Gandhi remains aware of the swift slide from tracing ethical projects of moral perfection (and imperfection) to acknowledging their proximity to political fascism, and the text is careful to mark the ambivalent outcome of practices that took the perfectibility of man, rather than the insurgence of the crowd, as their model.
