Absolutely Postcolonial - Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Paperback)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Angelaki Humanities
Release date:	2002
First published:	February 2002
Authors:	Peter Hallward
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6126-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-6126-1
Barcode:	9780719061264

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