Deconstruction and the Postcolonial: At the Limits of TheoryLiverpool University Press, 01/01/2007 - 136 من الصفحات Postcolonial studies have transformed how we think about subjectivity, national identity, globalization, history, language, literature, and international politics. Until recently, the emphasis has been almost exclusively within an Anglophone context, but the focus of postcolonial studies is shifting to a more comparative approach. One of the most intriguing developments has been within the Francophone world. A number of genealogical lines of influence are being drawn, connecting the work of the three figures most associated with the emergence of postcolonial theory–Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak–to an earlier generation of predominantly postructuralist French theorists. Within this emerging narrative of intellectual influences, the importance of the thought of Jacques Derrida and the status of deconstruction have been acknowledged, but not adequately accounted for. In Deconstruction and the Postcolonial, Michael Syrotinski reconsiders the underlying conceptual tensions and theoretical stakes of what he terms a "deconstructive postcolonialism" and argues that postcolonial studies stands to gain ground in terms of its political forcefulness and philosophical rigour by turning back to, and not away from, deconstruction. |
المحتوى
a few liminal remarks | 1 |
Part I Postcolonial deconstruction | 9 |
Part II Deconstruction and postcolonial Africa | 63 |
Conclusion Postcolonial Blanchot? | 117 |
Bibliography | 124 |
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Achille Mbembe African subject ambivalence analysis anthropological autobiographical Bennington Bhabha Blanchot chapter claim Claude Lévi-Strauss commodity commodity fetishism concept context critical Critique of Postcolonial decolonization deconstruction Derrida's Specters Derrida's text describes différance disavowal discourse double articulation economic effects English translation epistemological essay example exchange value Fanon fetishism film Foucault Francophone French Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Ghostwriting global Guelwaar hegemony Hoscar identity ideology invention Jacques Derrida Khatibi kind labour value language Lévi-Strauss literary literature logic Marx's Marxism Masolo Mbembe's mode Monolingualism Moreiras Mudimbe's Mulvey novel Paris perhaps philosophical Pietz political postcolonial Africa Postcolonial Reason postcolonial studies postcolonial theory precisely question radical reading reference relation relationship reprendre rhetorical Rigby's Routledge savage hybridity Sembene sense sexual difference singularity social Sony Labou Tansi Sony's Specters of Marx spectrality structures subaltern thematic theoretical thinking tion trans understanding University Press V. Y. Mudimbe violence Western writing Africa Xala Young