Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore

by Himani Bannerji

This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion between the universalism of decolonization and particularism of an anti-humanism from an identitarian segmented perspective. A corrective is offered by exploring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8195839444
• ISBN13: 9788195839445
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Tulika Books
• Length: 236 Pages