Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

For centuries, Europe has imagined itself as the center of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural, and social terrains demand some mapping. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe as a historically formed barricade against the world.
As Dabashi shows, Frantz Fanon's argument that "Europe is literally the creation of the Third World" remains true today: the colonial has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745338410
• ISBN13: 9780745338415
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"