Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography - Couverture souple

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Huddart, David

 
9780415759014: Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography
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ISBN 10 : 0415759013 ISBN 13 : 9780415759014
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn.

Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories.

Offering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience, investigation, and knowledge.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Huddart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge, 2005). His research interests cover postcolonial literature, literary theory, and the history of English languages.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415759013
ISBN 13 
9780415759014
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  0415353424 ISBN 13 :  9780415353427
Editeur : Routledge, 2007
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