TY - BOOK ID - 7038849 TI - Enlightenment in the colony : the Jewish question and the crisis of postcolonial culture PY - 2007 SN - 9780691057316 0691057311 9780691057323 069105732X 9786612087851 1282087851 1400827663 PB - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton university press, DB - UniCat KW - Secularism KW - Nationalism KW - Muslims in literature. KW - Jews in literature. KW - Jews KW - Liberalism KW - History. KW - Identity KW - India KW - Colonial influence. KW - History KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Ethics KW - Irreligion KW - Utilitarianism KW - Atheism KW - Postsecularism KW - Secularization (Theology) KW - Bharat KW - Bhārata KW - Government of India KW - Ḣindiston Respublikasi KW - Inde KW - Indië KW - Indien KW - Indii︠a︡ KW - Indland KW - Indo KW - Republic of India KW - Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa KW - Yin-tu KW - インド KW - هند KW - Индия KW - Secularism - India - History. KW - Nationalism - India - History. KW - Jews - Europe - Identity - History. KW - Liberalism - Europe - History. KW - India - Colonial influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7038849 AB - 'Enlightenment in the Colony' opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization. 'Enlightenment in the Colony' calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures. ER -