| 书目名称 | Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children | | 副标题 | A Francophone Postco | | 编辑 | Kundan Singh,Krishna Maheshwari | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Analyzes the connection between James Mill‘s colonial-racist discourse and current school-textbook discourse..Proposes that current textbook discourse on Hinduism and India needs to change to protect | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. The authors show that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. The very parameters and coordinates on which James Mill constructed the discourse are the ones that are being used to describe Hinduism, Hindus, and ancient India in the textbooks currently. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children a psychological impact quite similar to what racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors. This book argues that the current school textbook d | | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2024 | | 关键词 | Indian American children; Hinduism; India studies; Postcolonial Theory; Binary Theorems; James Mill; Fanon | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57627-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-57629-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-57627-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024 |
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