{"product_id":"affective-communities-anticolonial-thought-fin-de-siecle-radicalism-and-the-politics-of-friendship-paperback","title":"Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeela Gandhi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.\" So E. M. Forster famously observed in his \u003ci\u003eTwo Cheers for Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the \"friend\" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in \u003ci\u003eAffective Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century. Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions-including homosexuality, vegetarianism, animal rights, spiritualism, and aestheticism-united against imperialism and forged strong bonds with colonized subjects and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGandhi weaves together the stories of a number of South Asian and European friendships that flourished between 1878 and 1914, tracing the complex historical networks connecting figures like the English socialist and homosexual reformer Edward Carpenter and the young Indian barrister M. K. Gandhi, or the Jewish French mystic Mirra Alfassa and the Cambridge-educated Indian \u003ci\u003eyogi\u003c\/i\u003e and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, \u003ci\u003eAffective Communities\u003c\/i\u003e challenges homogeneous portrayals of \"the West\" and its role in relation to anticolonial struggles. Drawing on Derrida's theory of friendship, Gandhi puts forth a powerful new model of the political: one that finds in friendship a crucial resource for anti-imperialism and transnational collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very original and thought-provoking book, Affective Communities\" offers an outstanding contribution to postcolonial and queer studies. Leela Gandhi provides detailed, brilliant discussions of particular figures such as Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and M. K. Gandhi and the ways in which they interwove their various radical counter-cultural interests into larger political strategies of anticapitalist utopianism.\"--Robert J. C. Young, author of \"Postcolonialism\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeela Gandhi teaches at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonialism: A Critical Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e, a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eEngland in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Through Colonial Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, and a coeditor of the journal \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354195640569,"sku":"9780822337157","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/c9xgbWOIWA9780822337157.webp?v=1769833043","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/affective-communities-anticolonial-thought-fin-de-siecle-radicalism-and-the-politics-of-friendship-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}