Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore by Bannerji, Himani
Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore by Bannerji, Himani

Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore

The essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and writer Rabindranath...
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Author: Himani Bannerji
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Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore by Bannerji, Himani

Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore

$860.81
Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore by Bannerji, Himani

Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore

$860.81
Author: Himani Bannerji
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). His prose writings, including correspondence, are explored here through a Marxist perspective in order to assess their relevance for current critical and political needs. The collection explores Tagore's understanding of ideas of freedom and decolonization, which have gained urgency in our time. For accomplishing this task, the author examines Tagore's views on nationalism, imperialism, universalist humanism and modernism, suggesting that his version of modernism has great potential for transforming fundamental social relations and forms of consciousness of colonized spaces. Tagore's critical deployment of universalist humanism and modernism are studied in comparison with those of others engaged in postcolonial studies. The essays point out the reasons for Rabindranath's rejection of nationalism and imperialism, and show how he reframes the conventional problematic of decolonization in a dialectic of freedom and subjection.

This collection challenges the postmodernist absorption of the field of postcolonial studies, deeply inflected by Michel Foucault's anti-humanism and deconstructionist discourse analysis. It introduces a clarity in the epistemological confusion present in much of the writings on decolonization, which uneasily combine the general goal of decolonization with a particularism of an anti-modernist view that presents a segmenting culturalist/identitarian approach. It is claimed here that Rabindranath makes a vital contribution to the study of postcolonialism by rescuing the critique of colonization from the telos of postmodernism. He provides us with an understanding of the critical potential of a modernist idealism, generally dismissed as vacuous, rescuing humanism from the connotation of colonial discourse. The essays here affirm the adequacy of Tagore's universalist lens for imagining a utopian horizon which opens up a path towards an unfolding decolonization.

This volume accomplishes its task by critically reflecting on Tagore's writings on the self, pedagogy, patriarchy, human development and alienation. It provides evidence of Tagore's place as a classic, and perhaps the earliest, example of anti-colonial critique globally from within the heart of colonized India.

Author: Himani Bannerji
Publisher: Tulika Books
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9788195839445

About the Author
Himani Bannerji is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her interests encompass anti-racist feminism, Marxism, critical cultural theories and historical sociology.
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