The Intimacies of Four Continents
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822358751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge
a stunning book. a must-read for world historians, and critical thinkers of all trades Amazon Customer Lisa Lowe has come out with yet another field-changing monograph. It is based on her article of the same name written a few years before, but I can’t help but see its continuities with her work throughout her career. While her previous books (Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms and Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics) are usually cited as contributing to the field of Asian/American studies, and Intimacies more broadly discusses EuroAmerican modernity by departing from critical indigenous and black schola. "Five Stars" according to douglas w. lee. no comments now. "A must-read for established scholars and students alike" according to Amazon Customer. Lisa Lowe’s Intimacies of Four Continents is a tour-de-force piece of scholarship that has much to offer in its breadth and depth of analysis. I would highly recommend this text to scholars and students in the field of critical race studies, sociology and history. In Chapter One, The Intimacies of Four Continents, Lowe lays out the trajectory of her impressive book. Lowe’s study involves exposing and analyzing what she calls the “archive of liberalism” (p. A must-read for established scholars and students alike Amazon Customer Lisa Lowe’s Intimacies of Four Continents is a tour-de-force piece of scholarship that has much to offer in its breadth and depth of analysis. I would highly recommend this text to scholars and students in the field of critical race studies, sociology and history. In Chapter One, The Intimacies of Four Continents, Lowe lays out the trajectory of her impressive book. Lowe’s study involves exposing and analyzing what she calls the “archive of liberalism” (p. 4). In this chapter, Lowe also defines what she means by the . ). In this chapter, Lowe also defines what she means by the
Lisa Lowe patiently interweaves disparate global histories of economic and racial subjection and in the process opens up a new future for comparative literary studies both more critical and capacious. At stake in Lowe's analysis is not only a rethinking of the relation between the political and the aesthetic, but also the very ideas of culture and universality that has come to dominate academic thought.". "The Intimacies of Four Continents is an unprecedented work of literary, social, and political inquiry