Conscripts of Modernity Scott David Paperback
Conscripts of Modernity Scott David Paperback At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption,…
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Conscripts of Modernity Scott David Paperback
At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism--David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory, and that this imposes conceptual limitations. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance--as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption.
In tragedy, the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward, but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downs.Scott explores the political and epistemological He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance.
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