Affective Communities
Affective Communities "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's epigrammatic manifesto, where…
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Affective Communities
"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'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. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy.
Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions--including homosexuality, Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century.