Culture and Eurocentrism

By Qadri M Ismail and Qadri Ismail Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term's relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts - nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization- at the confluence of several disciplines. Culture, it contends, doesn't describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783486341
• ISBN13: 9781783486342
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary