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1 online resource (256) |
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Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Read the Global -- 1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence -- 2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk -- 3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir8217;s Global Perspective -- 4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad8216;s Lord Jim -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects ""legible, "" and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists. In this book, S |
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 -- Criticism and interpretation
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Abdullah, Munshi, 1796-1854 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Abdullah, Munshi, 1796-1854 |
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 |
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 |
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Globalization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Capitalism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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British colonies
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Capitalism in literature
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English literature
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Globalization in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature
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Kolonialliteratur
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Globalisierung Motiv
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Imperialismus Motiv
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Literatur
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
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Asia -- In literature
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Asia
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Südostasien <Motiv>
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Englisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1283008858 |
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9781283008853 |
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