Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French - Couverture souple

Hiddlestone, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904713025 ISBN 13 : 9781904713029

Editeur : Legenda, 2004

Synopsis

During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jane Hiddleston is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legenda
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904713025
• ISBN 13: 9781904713029
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible