| Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific Contributor(s): Hallward, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719061261 ISBN-13: 9780719061264 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2002 Annotation: This innovative book provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available. Peter Hallward gives substantial readings of four significant writers whose work invites, to varying degrees, a singular interpretation of postcolonialism: Edouard Glissant, Charles Johnson, Mohammed Dib, and Severo Sarduy. Using a singular interpretation of postcolonialism is central to the argument this book makes, and to understanding the postcolonial paradigm. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 325.3 |
| LCCN: 2001055893 |
| Series: Angelaki Humanites (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.20 lbs) 456 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category 'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best used to describe an ultimately singular configuration. A singularity is something that generates the medium of its own existence, in the eventual absence of external criteria and other existences. Like other singularities - pertinent comparisons include aspects of Buddhism and Islam, as well as concepts drawn from the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou - what is distinctive about a postcolonial discourse or literature is its abstraction from the domain of relationality. Here, Hallward offers a new conceptual distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation, which should prove influential in a range of discourses. |