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Qadri Ismail is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
Introduction: Culture as Problem / 1. Culture/Race/Nature: Arnold, Tylor / 2. (Civil) Society/Nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay / 3. Imagination/Imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski. / 4. Culture/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer / 5. ‘”Race”/Cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas, Turner, “Jefferson” / Conclusion: Modernity, Eurocentrism, Postcoloniality / Bibliography / Index
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A lively, provocative and original work. Ismail’s vigorous arguments will stimulate debate across many fields, including postcolonial studies, cultural studies and global studies.
— Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University
How scandalous is eurocentrism? The question is embarrassing: the larger eurocentrism’s vestiges seem to loom, the less room for scandal they leave. Qadri Ismail’s provocation, as sassy as it is erudite, aims a renewed postcolonial studies full in the face of this embarrassment.
— Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Brings together a range of texts from the seventeenth century to present in order to offer a new definition of eurocentrism and postcoloniality.
Engages with the work of Arnold, Tyler, Hobbes, Locke, Kipling, Macaulay, Du Bois and Malinowski.
Shows how the idea of culture developed during colonialism in order to hierarchically distinguish a superior, European self from a backward other.
Questions the basic assumptions of cultural studies and postcolonial studies.