Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Contributor(s): Singh, Julietta (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822369397 ISBN-13: 9780822369394 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Social Science | Gender Studies - Philosophy |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 2017019894 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery. |