Tim Mcgraw and the Dance Hall by Mcgraw Tim

Tim Mcgraw and the Dance Hall by Mcgraw Tim

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 Two Cheers for Democracy. 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 Affective Communities, 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.

Gandhi 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 yogi and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, Affective Communities 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.

Tim McGraw is an American singer, songwriter and actor. With ten #1 albums, thirty-six #1 singles and sixty top ten singles, he has won three Grammy awards, fourteen Academy of Country Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association awards, ten American Music Awards, and three People's Choice awards. Film highlights include Friday Night Lights, the Oscar winning The Blindside, and The Shack.

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ISBN 13	9780743467063
ISBN 10	074346706X
Title	Tim Mcgraw and the Dance Hall
Author	Mcgraw Tim
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Year published	2002-11-18
Number of pages	161
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