Archaeology of Babel Ahmed Siraj Paperback
Archaeology of Babel Ahmed Siraj Paperback For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the…
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Archaeology of Babel Ahmed Siraj Paperback
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. In fact, each of philology's foundational innovations originally served British rule in India.Tracing an unacknowledged history that extends from British Orientalist Sir William Jones to Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said and beyond, Archaeology of Babel excavates the epistemic transformation that was engendered on a global scale by the colonial reconstruction of native languages, literatures, and law. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy.
In the process, it reveals the extent to which even postcolonial studies and European philosophy--not to