Absolutely Postcolonial
Writing Between the Singular and the Specific
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2002
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-6126-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-6126-4 (ISBN)
Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available -- .
We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category ‘postcolonial’, but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best used to describe an ultimately singular configuration. A singularity is something that generates the medium of its own existence, in the eventual absence of external criteria and other existences. Like other singularities – pertinent comparisons include aspects of Buddhism and Islam, as well as concepts drawn from the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou – what is distinctive about a postcolonial discourse or literature is its abstraction from the domain of relationality. Here, Hallward offers a new conceptual distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation, which should prove influential in a range of discourses. -- .
We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category ‘postcolonial’, but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best used to describe an ultimately singular configuration. A singularity is something that generates the medium of its own existence, in the eventual absence of external criteria and other existences. Like other singularities – pertinent comparisons include aspects of Buddhism and Islam, as well as concepts drawn from the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou – what is distinctive about a postcolonial discourse or literature is its abstraction from the domain of relationality. Here, Hallward offers a new conceptual distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation, which should prove influential in a range of discourses. -- .
Peter Hallward is Professor Of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and is the author of Subject to Truth: The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (2002) -- .
Introduction: Singular or specific?
1. Postcolonial theory
2. Edouard Glissant: from nation to Relation
3. Charles Johnson and the transcendence of place
4. Mohammed Dib and the 'alarm al-mithral: between the singular and the specific
5. Severo Sarduy: sunyata and beyond
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2002 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Angelaki Humanities |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-6126-1 / 0719061261 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-6126-4 / 9780719061264 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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