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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. This 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality
• Subtitle: The Anxiety of Theory
• Author: Jane Hiddleston
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 207
• EAN: 9781846312304
• ISBN: 1846312302
• ID: 05099888
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 163 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2010

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