Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze

Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34547-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burns, L.

Kaiser, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts; L.Burns & B.M.Kaiser PART I: DETERITORIALIZING DELEUZE, RETHINKING POSTCOLONIALISM Forget Deleuze; B.B.Janz The Bachelor-Machine and The Postcolonial Writer; G.Lambert The World With(out) Others, or How to Unlearn the Desire for the Other; K.Thiele Edward Said Between Singular and Specific; D.Huddart Deleuze, Hallward, and the Transcendental Analytic of Relation; N.Nesbitt PART II: THE SINGULARITY OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES The Singularities of Postcolonial Literature: Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib's 'Northern Trilogy'; B.M.Kaiser Postcolonialism Beyond the Colonized and the Colonizer: Caribbean Writing as Postcolonial 'Health'; L.Burns Becoming-animal, Becoming-political in Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot Entêté; R.Bensmaia, translated by P.Krus Revolutionizing Pleasure in Writing: Subversive Desire and Micropolitical Affects in Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads; M.Marinkova Undercurrents and the Desert(ed): Negarestani, Tournier and Deleuze Map the Polytics of a 'New Earth'; R.Dolphijn Afterword Postcolonial Deleuze; R.Braidotti Index

Über Autor(innen)

REDA BENSMAIA University Professor of French and Francophone Literature, Brown University, USA

ROSI BRAIDOTTI Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands

LORNA BURNS Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln, UK

RICK DOLPHIJN Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands

DAVID HUDDART Associate Professor of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong

BRUCE B. JANZ Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, USA

GREGG LAMBERT Dean's Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University Humanities Centre, USA

MILENA MARINKOVA Independent Researcher, UK

NICK NESBITT Professor of French and Italian, Princeton University, USA

KATHRIN THIELE Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands