Questions of modernity

In: Contradictions of modernity 11

Abstract

The stage of modernity / Timothy Mitchell -- Two poets and death : on civil and political society in the non-Christian world / Partha Chatterjee -- Witness to suffering : domestic cruelty and the birth of the modern subject in Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Modern subjects : Egyptian melodrama and postcolonial difference / Lila Abu-Lughod -- The thin line of modernity : some Moroccan debates on subjectivity / Stefania Pandolfo -- The sovereignty of history : culture and modernity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray / Nicholas B. Dirks -- The making of modernity : gender and time in Indian cinema / Veena Das -- Body politic in colonial India / Gyan Prakash