Böcker av Leela Gandhi

A view of postcolonialism, taking into account both its complex intellectual history and the major theories and debates that preoccupy critics in this area. The author argues that postcolonialism can be an enabling model for the non-violent negotiation of culture and political difference.

Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.

Illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.

Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914.

A provocative and exemplary introduction to the field of postcolonial studies.