Deconstruction and the Postcolonial: At the Limits of Theory - Couverture rigide

Syrotinski, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846310563 ISBN 13 : 9781846310560

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2007

Synopsis

As postcolonial studies shifts to a more comparative approach one of the most intriguing developments has been within the Francophone world. A number of genealogical lines of influence are now being drawn connecting the work of the three figures most associated with the emergence of postcolonial theory – Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak – to an earlier generation of French (predominantly ‘poststructuralist’) theorists. Within this emerging narrative of intellectual influences, the importance of the thought of Jacques Derrida, and the status of deconstruction generally, has been acknowledged, but has not until now been adequately accounted for. In Deconstruction and the Postcolonial, Michael Syrotinski teases out the underlying conceptual tensions and theoretical stakes of what he terms a ‘deconstructive postcolonialism’, and argues that postcolonial studies stands to gain ground in terms of its political forcefulness and philosophical rigour by turning back to, and not away from, deconstruction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Syrotinski is is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846310563
• ISBN 13: 9781846310560
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible