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OverviewBringing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: L. Burns , B. KaiserPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2012 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781349345472ISBN 10: 1349345474 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 01 January 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 IndexReviews'This volume offers an impressive line-up of scholars, who tackle the complex intersection between Deleuze's philosophy and postcolonial literature head on and with a laudable thoroughness. The strength of these essays lies in the quality of the scholarship behind them; the authors all engage fully with the difficult philosophical concepts that both Deleuze and postcolonial theory presents. At the same time the pieces are logical, well written and clearly argued.' - Eva Aldea, Visiting Tutor, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Author InformationREDA 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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