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9780231124195 |
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907.2 |
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GUH |
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Guha, Ranajit |
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History at the Limit of World-History / |
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by Ranajit Guha |
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New York: |
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Columbia University Press, |
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2002. |
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x, 116p.; |
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22cm. |
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Italian Academy Lectures. |
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Includes index. |
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1. Introduction<br/>2. Historicality and the Prose of the World<br/>3. The Prose of History, or The Invention of World-History<br/>4. Experience, Wonder, and the Pathos of Historicality<br/>5. Epilogue: The Poverty of Historiography-a Poet's Reproach<br/>Appendix: Historicality in Literature by Rabindranath Tagore <br/>Notes<br/>Glossary<br/>Index<br/> |
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The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. That concept, he contends, reduces the course of human history to the amoral record of states and empires, great men and clashing civilizations. It renders invisible the quotidian experience of ordinary people and casts off all that came before it into the nether-existence known as "Prehistory."<br/><br/>On the Indian subcontinent, Guha believes, this Western way of looking at the past was so successfully insinuated by British colonization that few today can see clearly its ongoing and pernicious influence. He argues that to break out of this habit of mind and go beyond the Eurocentric and statist limit of World-history historians should learn from literature to make their narratives doubly inclusive: to extend them in scope not only to make room for the pasts of the so-called peoples without history but to address the historicality of everyday life as well. Only then, as Guha demonstrates through an examination of Rabindranath Tagore's critique of historiography, can we recapture a more fully human past of "experience and wonder." (Source: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/history-at-the-limit-of-world-history/9780231124195) |
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Historiography |
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History Philosophy |
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History & Archaeology |
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History Philosophy |
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