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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790308603321

Titolo

Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze [[electronic resource] ] : Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures / / edited by L. Burns, B. Kaiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-53238-7

9786613844835

1-137-03080-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Classificazione

LIT012000LIT000000LIT006000

Disciplina

809.045

809.93358

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Philosophy

Literature   

Literature—Philosophy

Twentieth-Century Literature

Philosophy, general

Postcolonial/World Literature

Popular Science in Philosophy

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forget Deleuze / Bruce B. Janz -- The bachelor-machine and the postcolonial writer / Gregg Lambert -- The world with(out) others, or, How to unlearn the desire for the other / Kathrin Thiele -- Edward Said between singular and specific / David Huddart -- Deleuze, Hallward, and the transcendental analytic of relation / Nick Nesbitt -- The singularities of postcolonial literature : preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib's Northern trilogy / Birgit M. Kaiser -- Postcolonialism beyond the colonized and the colonizer : Caribbean writing as postcolonial health / Lorna Burns -- Becoming-animal, becoming-political in Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot entêté / Réda Bensmaïa



(translated by Patricia Krus) -- Revolutionizing pleasure in writing : subversive desire and micropolitical affects in Nalo Hopkinson's The salt roads / Milena Marinkova -- Undercurrents and the desert(ed) : Negarestani, Tournier and Deleuze map the polytics of a "new earth" / Rick Dolphijn.

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory.