At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so
many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong
?colonial? connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a
coincidence. The ?biographical? fact that so many French
intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French
Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised.
Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact
has colonial and postcolonial roots. This is an important argument,
and one that ?connects? two theoretical currents that continue to
be of great interest, post-structuralism and postcolonialism.
The re-reading of what is now familiar material against the
background of de-colonial struggles demonstrates the extent to
which it is this new condition that prompted theory to question
long-held assumptions inscribed in the European colonial
enterprise. The wide-ranging discussion, ranging across authors as
different as Foucault, Derrida, Fanon, Althusser, Cixous, Bourdieu
and Lyotard, enables the reader to make connections that have
remained unnoticed or been neglected. It also brings back into view
a history of struggles, both political and theoretical, that has
shaped the landscape of critique in the social sciences and
humanities.
This clear and lucid discussion of important and often difficult
thinkers will be widely read and widely debated by students and
academics alike.
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