Deconstruction and the postcolonial : at the limits of theory
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Deconstruction and the postcolonial : at the limits of theory
（Postcolonialism across the disciplines / series editors, Graham Huggan, Andrew Thompson, 2）
Liverpool University Press, 2007
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Bibliography: p. 124-132
Includes index
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Description
As postcolonial studies shifts 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 now 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 French (predominantly 'poststructuralist') theorists. Within this emerging narrative of intellectual influences, the importance of the thought of Jacques Derrida, and the status of deconstruction generally, has been acknowledged, but has not until now been adequately accounted for. In Deconstruction and the Postcolonial, Michael Syrotinski teases out 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: a few liminal remarks
Part I. Postcolonial deconstruction
1. Deconstruction in Algeria (Derrida 'himself ')
2. Hybridity revisited
3. Spivak reading Derrida: an interesting exchange
Part II. Deconstruction and postcolonial Africa
4. Defetishizing Africa
5. Reprendre: Mudimbe's deconstructions
6. Violence and writing in the African postcolony: Achille Mbembe and Sony Labou Tansi
Conclusion (Postcolonial Blanchot?)
Bibliography
Index
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