DISCIPLINED NATIVES (RACE, FREEDOM, CONFINEMENT IN COL INDIA)

Author: Satadru Sen

Brand: Primus Books

Edition: 1

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 360

Release Date: 01-01-2012

Details: This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children’s literature. The essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the body to the confined ‘soul’, colonial disciplinary institutions ensured that race was firmly attached to the body and its habits. They also engage the historiography that has sought to underline the challenges of reconciling Michel Foucault and Edward Said. They ask whether the liberating possibilities of the racialized-and-embodied ‘native’ self were confined to inversions and rearrangements of given normative hierarchies, or if we can occasionally glimpse radical departures and alternative configurations of power.

EAN: 9789380607313

Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English