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In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.
Postcolonialism in literature. --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Act of Violence. --- Alain Badiou. --- Alterity. --- Antithesis. --- Autobiography. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Colonialism. --- Conceptualization (information science). --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Culture and Imperialism. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Decolonization. --- Dialectic. --- Diegesis. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgrace. --- Disgust. --- Dusklands. --- Edward Said. --- Emblem. --- Essay. --- Ethics. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Franz Kafka. --- G. (novel). --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Henri Bergson. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Impossibility. --- In the Heart of the Country. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- J. M. Coetzee. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Lag. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Michel Leiris. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernity. --- Mrs. --- Nadine Gordimer. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Pathos. --- Pessimism. --- Peter Hallward. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pier Paolo Pasolini. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Postmodernism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Primo Levi. --- Principle. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Self-hatred. --- Seven Pillars of Wisdom. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Slow Man. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- T. E. Lawrence. --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Wretched of the Earth. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Vocation (poem). --- Writer. --- Writing.
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In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad al-`Urabi. Although most Western observers still see the `Urabi movement as a "revolt" of junior military officers with only limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole maintains that it was a broadly based social revolution hardly underway when it was cut off by the British. While arguing this fresh point of view, he also proposes a theory of revolutions against informal or neocolonial empires, drawing parallels between Egypt in 1882, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran. In a thorough examination of the changing Egyptian political culture from 1858 through the `Urabi episode, Cole shows how various social strata--urban guilds, the intelligentsia, and village notables--became "revolutionary." Addressing issues raised by such scholars as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, his book combines four complementary approaches: social structure and its socioeconomic context, organization, ideology, and the ways in which unexpected conjunctures of events help drive a revolution.
Social classes --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- History --- ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, --- Egypt --- Aḥmad ʻArābī, --- Aḥmad ʻIrābī, --- Aḥmad ʻUrābī, --- ʻArābī, Aḥmad, --- ʻArabi Pasha, --- ʻIrābī, Aḥmad, --- Ourabi, Ahmad, --- Ourabi, Ahmed, --- ʻUrābī Pasha, --- أحمد عرابي --- عرابي، أحمد، --- عرابي، احمد --- عرابي، احمد، --- عرابى، أحمد، --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Activism. --- Al-Ahram. --- Al-Mahdi. --- Algerian War. --- Ancien Régime. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Arabization. --- Banditry. --- Before the Revolution. --- Bourgeoisie. --- British Empire. --- Bureaucrat. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Caliphate. --- Capitalism. --- Censorship. --- Central Asia. --- Circassians. --- Colonialism. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Constitutionalist (UK). --- Corporatism. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Decolonization. --- Despotism. --- Economic interventionism. --- Education in Egypt. --- Egyptian Government. --- Egyptian crisis (2011–14). --- Egyptian law. --- Egyptians. --- Elie Kedourie. --- Emir. --- English Revolution. --- Expansionism. --- Expatriate. --- Extraterritoriality. --- Foreign policy of the United States. --- From Time Immemorial. --- Ideology. --- Imperial Ambitions. --- Imperialism. --- Indian Rebellion of 1857. --- Infant industry. --- Insurgency. --- Intelligentsia. --- International relations. --- Iranian Revolution. --- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani. --- Jingoism. --- Khedive. --- Labor aristocracy. --- Liberalism (book). --- Liberalism. --- Loan shark. --- Mercantilism. --- Middle East. --- Mirrors for princes. --- Nativism (politics). --- Neocolonialism. --- New Political Economy (journal). --- Newspaper. --- On Revolution. --- Orientalism. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Pan-Islamism. --- Peasant. --- Pogrom. --- Political revolution. --- Politics. --- Poll tax. --- Populism. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Reformism. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Ruhollah Khomeini. --- Salman Rushdie. --- Sayyid. --- Secularization. --- Social revolution. --- State within a state. --- States and Social Revolutions. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Suez Canal Company. --- Suez Crisis. --- Tanzimat. --- Tax collector. --- Tax. --- The Imperialism of Free Trade. --- Tyrant. --- Upper Egypt. --- Urban riots. --- Use tax. --- Usury. --- Warfare. --- Westernization. --- Young Turk Revolution. --- Zoroaster. --- Urabi, Ahmad,
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