Description: Further DetailsTitle: Affective CommunitiesCondition: NewSubtitle: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of FriendshipISBN-10: 0822337150EAN: 9780822337157ISBN: 9780822337157Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/11/2006Description: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century. Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions—including homosexuality, vegetarianism, animal rights, spiritualism, and aestheticism—united against imperialism and forged strong bonds with colonized subjects and cultures. Gandhi weaves together the stories of a number of South Asian and European friendships that flourished between 1878 and 1914, tracing the complex historical networks connecting figures like the English socialist and homosexual reformer Edward Carpenter and the young Indian barrister M. K. Gandhi, or the Jewish French mystic Mirra Alfassa and the Cambridge-educated Indian yogi and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, Affective Communities challenges homogeneous portrayals of “the West” and its role in relation to anticolonial struggles. Drawing on Derrida’s theory of friendship, Gandhi puts forth a powerful new model of the political: one that finds in friendship a crucial resource for anti-imperialism and transnational collaboration.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Leela GandhiGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Politics, History, and CultureRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Affective Communities
Title: Affective Communities
Subtitle: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics
ISBN-10: 0822337150
EAN: 9780822337157
ISBN: 9780822337157
Release Date: 01/11/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Affective Communities : Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), History & Theory, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Leela Gandhi
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Series: Politics, History, and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Perfect
