How Long to Read Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

How Long Does it Take to Read Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. In this absorbing book, he travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.

How long is Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony?

Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony aloud.

What Reading Level is Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony?

Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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