Poststructuralism and postcoloniality : the anxiety of theory
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Poststructuralism and postcoloniality : the anxiety of theory
（Postcolonialism across the disciplines / series editors, Graham Huggan, Andrew Thompson, 8）
Liverpool University Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-196) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Poststructuralism in Algeria
1. Derrida in Exile: Philosophy, Postcolonialism and the Call for a Singular Universalism
2. In or Out? The Dislocations of Helene Cixous
3. Lyotard's Algeria: Theory and/or Politics
Part Two: Theory and Cultural Difference
4. Displacing Barthes: Self, Other and the Theorist's Uneasy Belonging
5. National Identity and Etrangete: Kristeva's Search for a Language of Otherness
6. Spivak's Echo: Autobiography, Narcissism and the Theoretical Voice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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