Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of comparative literature, and her work has focused on literatures and cultures of encounter that emerge from histories of colonialism, immigration, capitalism, and globalization. She is known especially for work on French and British colonialisms and postcolonial literature, Asian immigration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative global humanities.
发表于2024-11-25
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In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
在西方解放黑奴,平等自由进步的叙述背后被隐藏的是什么?是同时期大量亚洲劳工被冠以“free labor”的头衔受到奴隶搬的对待。capitalist modernity是要代价支撑的,但这些代价是绝对要在进步的语序中被隐去的。所以不同的人中被分而治之,却无法发现各自的苦难紧密相连。所以,Solidarity/intamicies本身就可以使反抗的一部分。它反抗的是既是已经过去的苦难,也是仍在建构的偏狭的西方世界史的世界观。也就是在这种重新审视建构过去与现在的关系的过程中,我们可以充分发挥想象力,寻找走出dialectic of consciousness的方法,一种逃出academic institution重构种族间亲密平等关系的路径。
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评分idea很好,线索的发展和阐述一般(说实在的我也没咋读懂);听说最早是一篇论文,好论文是可以写成书的…
评分其实历史学家早都说过了
评分idea很好,线索的发展和阐述一般(说实在的我也没咋读懂);听说最早是一篇论文,好论文是可以写成书的…
The Intimacies of Four Continents 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书