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Affective communities : anticolonial thought, Fin-De-Siècle radicalism, and the politics of friendship

Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914
Print Book, English, 2006
Duke University Press, Durham, 2006
x, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
9780822337034, 9780822337157, 0822337037, 0822337150
954128381
Acknowledgements ix1. Introduction: Affective Communities 12. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 133. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 344. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 675. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 1156. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 1427. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177Notes 191Index 237