Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric
and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly
applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural
difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of
cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography
addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn.
Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for
its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued
relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding
postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on
the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory
and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes
a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and
theories.
Offering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like
Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in
the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles
Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of
autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together
with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience,
investigation, and knowledge.
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