Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to AfricaThis book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case

”(Colson Whitehead

demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning

and a community advocate

PHOENIX is equipped to conquer the slums that raised him

thousands of West Indian workers

Since its independence from Britain in 1960

often shocking

to portray a child of immigrants who is normal—no different than her peers—other than she loves the classics (like Jennings did as a child) and thinks Cuban food rules

Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout

there was the sudden explosion in its population

The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis

and Leyte Gulf