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Absolutely Postcolonial - Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Paperback)
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Absolutely Postcolonial - Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Paperback)
Series: Angelaki Humanities
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We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category
'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual
associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and
resistance. This book argues that the category is best used to
describe an ultimately singular configuration. A singularity is
something that generates the medium of its own existence, in the
eventual absence of external criteria and other existences. Like
other singularities - pertinent comparisons include aspects of
Buddhism and Islam, as well as concepts drawn from the philosophies
of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou - what is distinctive about a
postcolonial discourse or literature is its abstraction from the
domain of relationality. Here, Hallward offers a new conceptual
distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation,
which should prove influential in a range of discourses. -- .
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