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Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas—eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory—in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of these imperial projects.
The conversations that resulted in this volume began at a conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. We are grateful to Peter Reill, director of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, for his enthusiasm, encouragement, and generous sponsorship of the event, and to Doris L. Garraway and Sven Trakulhun, with whom we jointly organized the conference. We also want to express our gratitude to the staff of the Center and Library, especially Candis Snoddy, Anna Huang, and Marina Romani. Prior to this, our initial encounters and discussions occurred in the context of the International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century, for which we wish to thank Byron Wells and Philip Stewart, who brought us together, and to Vicki Cutting at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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