Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality

The Anxiety of Theory

AvJane Hiddleston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing.Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self.The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-05
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Antal sidor:207
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781846312304

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Mer om författaren

Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.

Recensioner i media

A thorough, well-researched and well-written piece of scholarship. Though it covers a lot of ground, and deals with six notoriously complex and prolific thinkers, the overall project is impressively focused and coherent…This is clearly an accomplished piece of work, and it will be a valuable addition to the growing literature on the topic.Peter Hallward, Middlesex University

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Poststructuralism in Algeria1. Derrida in Exile: Philosophy, Postcolonialism and the Call for a Singular Universalism2. In or Out? The Dislocations of Hélène Cixous3. Lyotard’s Algeria: Theory and/or PoliticsPart Two: Theory and Cultural Difference4. Displacing Barthes: Self, Other and the Theorist’s Uneasy Belonging5. National Identity and Etrangeté: Kristeva’s Search for a Language of Otherness6. Spivak’s Echo: Autobiography, Narcissism and the Theoretical VoiceConclusionBibliographyIndexContents