Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

(Part of the Politics, History, and Culture Series)

by Leela Gandhi

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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the "friend" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822337150

ISBN13:9780822337157

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Radicalism Specific Demographics

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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

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