Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality - The Anxiety of Theory (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 8
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Jane Hiddleston
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	207
ISBN-13:	978-1-84631-230-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-84631-230-2
Barcode:	9781846312304

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