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Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the 'humanities'. On the one hand, it treats colonial education as a facet of colonialism. It draws on a rich body of work by 'colonized' writers - starting with Edward Said, then focusing on Algeria - that attests to the suffering inflicted by colonialism, to the shortcomings of colonial education, and to the often painful mismatch between the world of the colonial school and students' home cultures. On the other hand, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education, and its powers of transformation.

Education, Colonial --- Education --- History. --- Edward Said --- Mouloud Feraoun --- Algerian literature --- Algeria --- Albert Memmi --- Jean Amrouche --- postcolonial --- literary education --- Assia Djeba --- colonial education

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The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of "Occident" and "Orient" as such.This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to thepresent day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies. Contributors: Anil Bhatti, Michael Dusche, Johannes Feichtinger, Johann Heiss, James Hodkinson, Kerstin Jobst, Jon Keune, Todd Kontje, Margit Köves, Sarah Lemmen, Shaswati Mazumdar, Jyoti Sabarwal, Ulrike Stamm, John Walker. James Hodkinson is Associate Professor in German Studies at Warwick University. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck College, University of London. Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor in German at the University of Delhi. Johannes Feichtinger is a Researcher at the österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Orientalism in literature. --- Orientalism --- Travelers' writings, European --- European travelers' writings --- European literature --- East and West --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Europe --- Orient --- Civilization --- Oriental influences. --- In literature. --- "Occident" and "Orient". --- Central and Eastern European worlds. --- Edward Said. --- Forms of orientalism. --- German scholars. --- German studies. --- German-speaking world. --- Indian scholars. --- Oriental studies. --- Orientalism. --- Western culture.

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'Representing Bushmen' draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin Bernal to show how the study of language was integral to the formation of racial discrimination in South Africa. Author Shane Moran demonstrates the central role of literary history to the cultural racism and ideology that fed into apartheid by tracing the ethno-aesthetic figuration of the Bushmen in W. H. I. Bleek's theory of the origin of language. Moran examines the gestation of colonial ideology, and provocatively traces aspects of the post-apartheid rhetoric of commemoration and national unity to their colonialist roots. This detailed and compelling volume contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship. Moran emphasizes the need for a cautious interrogation of the colonial archive and scrutiny of critical discourses used by the would-be postcolonial intellectual, and poses a timely challenge to those committed to exorcising that legacy. Shane Moran teaches at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

San (African people) --- Apartheid. --- Language and languages --- Racism in language. --- Language and racism --- Racism and language --- Racist language --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Separate development (Race relations) --- Segregation --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- Origin. --- Origin --- Bushmen. --- Colonialism. --- Colonialist roots. --- Cultural racism. --- Edward Said. --- Ethno-aesthetic figuration. --- Ideology. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Language. --- Martin Bernal. --- Post-apartheid rhetoric. --- Racial discrimination. --- South Africa.

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Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, and travel--such as radio and rapidly and globally circulated journals--completely transformed the position occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world literature. Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals that were sponsored by organizations such as the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational figures. Their work formed a new canon of world literature that was celebrated in the United States and supposedly represented the best of contemporary thought, while less politically attractive authors were ignored or even demonized. This championing and demonizing of writers occurred in the name of anti-Communism--the new, transatlantic "civilizing mission" through which postwar cultural and literary authority emerged.

Cold War in literature. --- Criticism --- History --- American postwar ascendancy. --- CCF. --- CIA. --- Central Intelligence Agency. --- Cold War. --- Communism. --- Congress for Cultural Freedom. --- Edward Said. --- Erich Auerbach. --- Frankfurt School. --- Freedom of Information Act. --- George Orwell. --- Institute for Social Research. --- Nineteen Eighty-Four. --- Orientalism. --- Stephen Spender. --- Theodor Adorno. --- World War II. --- anticommunism. --- colonialism. --- cultural diplomacy. --- cultural domination. --- cultural politics. --- cultural space. --- cultural translation. --- cultural transmission. --- decolonization. --- empiricism. --- exile. --- exiled intellectual. --- global literary landscape. --- globalization. --- humanism. --- humanistic practice. --- imperial authority. --- institutional challenges. --- journals. --- knowledge suppression. --- literary diplomacy. --- literature. --- magazines. --- national identity. --- philology. --- positivism. --- postcolonial space. --- postwar culture. --- postwar literature. --- totalitarianism. --- translation zone. --- transnational postwar writers. --- transnationalization. --- world literature.

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In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt-by the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882-in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim. Tageldin finds that the encounter with European Orientalism often invited colonized Egyptians to imagine themselves "equal" to or even "masters" of their colonizers, and thus, paradoxically, to translate themselves toward-virtually into-the European. Moving beyond the domination/resistance binary that continues to govern understandings of colonial history, Tageldin redefines cultural imperialism as a politics of translational seduction, a politics that lures the colonized to seek power through empire rather than against it, thereby repressing its inherent inequalities. She considers, among others, the interplays of Napoleon and Hasan al-'Attar; Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Silvestre de Sacy, and Joseph Agoub; Cromer, 'Ali Mubarak, Muhammad al-Siba'i, and Thomas Carlyle; Ibrahim 'Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, and Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat; and Salama Musa, G. Elliot Smith, Naguib Mahfouz, and Lawrence Durrell. In conversation with new work on translation, comparative literature, imperialism, and nationalism, Tageldin engages postcolonial and poststructuralist theorists from Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak to Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, and Jacques Derrida.

Language and languages in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Postcolonialism --- Translating and interpreting --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- English --- Arabic and French. --- Arabic and English. --- History --- History and criticism --- Translating --- English. --- History of civilization --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- Egypt --- Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.. --- Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.. --- Postcolonialism -- Egypt.. --- Comparative literature -- Arabic and English.. --- Comparative literature -- English.. --- 19th century egypt. --- 19th century europe. --- arab and muslim. --- british occupation of egypt. --- colonial history. --- colonized egyptians. --- cultural imperialism. --- edward said. --- egyptian empire. --- egyptian history. --- europe and egypt. --- european colonialism. --- european colonization. --- european empire. --- european orientalism. --- frantz fanon. --- french occupation of egypt. --- hasan al-attar. --- imperialism and nationalism. --- imperialism. --- jacques derrida. --- napoleon. --- postcolonial egypt. --- postructuralist theorists. --- translational seduction. --- walter benjamin.