Identification and Disavowal in Colonial Representations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20079328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Padamsee (0000-0003-0732-3796, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 23-35 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230512474_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2500431581 |
| ISBN | 9780230512474 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
To insist upon this ‘coupling’ of ‘Mohammedan’ to ‘Anglo-Indian’ is unexceptional in the context of the theories of colonial discourse analysis inaugurated by Edward Said’s Orientalism. But it is necessary to go further than merely confirming the ‘production’ of Eastern subjects for a Western Metropolitan audience as a process of identity-formation dependent on a discourse of ‘Otherness’1 (available here, for instance, in a reading of ‘Mahommedanism’ in India as so many points of inversion between the anatomised Muslims and the inferred, integrated ideal of British Christians in India). It is necessary, rather, to begin to problematise the casual admission of identification between coloniser and colonised that, it will here be argued, directs the colonial representation of Indian Muslims
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Casual · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Identification (biology) · Identity (music) · Inversion (geology) · Orientalism · Political science · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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