THE WORLD AFTER GAZA - PANKAJ MISHRA

Libro

Editorial	FERN PRESS
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	MISHRA PANKAJ
ISBN	9781911717492
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2025
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	THE WORLD AFTER GAZA Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel's policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world - the 'darker peoples', in W. E. B. Du Bois's words - the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation - freedom from the white man's world. The World After Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West's triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism, and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the global majority's frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world's balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world's population. As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis - about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World After Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future. Edad recomendada: Adultos. MISHRA PANKAJ Entre los libros de Pankaj Mishra se incluyen The Romantics, ganador del Premio Art Seidenbaum de ficción del LA Times, Age of Anger y From the Ruins of Empire. Colabora con ensayos políticos y literarios en The Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books y The New Yorker. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature, reside en Londres.
Cantidad de páginas	304
Fecha Ingreso	23-07-2025