Postmodernity's Histories The Past as Legacy and Project

by Dirlik, Arif

• ISBN13: 9780742501676
• ISBN10: 0742501671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to the practice of historical research. Moving beyond mere critique, he synthesizes traditional historical methods with new approaches that emphasize historical memory, indigenous writing, place based history, and the dual processes of integration and fragmentation in a globalized world.

Author Biography

Arif Dirlik is professor of history and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
How the Grinch Hijacked Radicalism: Postrevolutionary Histories	1	(18)
Revolutions in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective	19	(44)
Is There History after Eurocentrism? Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History	63	(28)
Theory, History, Culture: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Theory in Twentieth-Century China	91	(28)
Reading Ashis Nandy: The Return of the Past, or Modernity with a Vengeance	119	(24)
Formations of Globality and Radical Politics	143	(30)
Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridites, Places, and Histories	173	(30)
The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism	203	(26)
Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Childs's Idea of the Transcommunal	229	(8)
Appendix John Brown Childs on Transcommunality	237	(2)
Index	239	(6)
About the Author	245