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Unarchived Histories
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Traditional historians hold that there can be no history without an archive. But how is one to write a history of prejudice where the evidence that identifies or signifies its everyday forms and discriminatory behaviour is scrappy and ambiguous? The common sense of polarised race, caste, class or...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Subalternity and Difference
Investigations from the North and the South
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...
Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote...
Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge