Postcolonial agency: critique and constructivism
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1. Verfasser: Bignall, Simone (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Plateaus
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-252) and index
Cover; Series Information; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Critique; 1 The Problem of the Negative; 2 Postcolonial Appropriations; 3 The Problem of the Actual; Part II Constructivism; 4 Power/Desire; 5 Subjectivity; 6 What is 'Postcolonial'?; Conclusion: Postcolonial Agency; Bibliography; Index
This book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples. It offers new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to responsibly transform this historical injustice. Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy including Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and Deleuze, to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of pos
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 260 pages)
ISBN:0748642447
9780748642441

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