Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 8) (Volume 8) - Hardcover

Hiddleston, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846312302 ISBN 13: 9781846312304

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing. Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self. The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Hiddleston is Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College and author of 'Assia Djebar: Out of Africa' (LUP, 2006).

Review:

"Hiddleston has produced a sophisticated and comprehensive study that genuinely contributes to the literature in this area."--Modern Language Review

"... this is a very insightful and well-informed contribution to contemporary theoretical debates within this field."--French Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846312302
• ISBN 13: 9781846312304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 207