Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization - Hardcover

 
9780816512775: Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization

Synopsis

Through re-examination of colonial and post-colonial encounters, this collection of essays makes a strategic intervention into the current debate over the study of "Western Civilization." Together they question whether, at least since Columbus, "the West" has existed independent of its relations with those deemed Other.

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