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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820428303321

Autore

Bignall Simone

Titolo

Deleuze and the postcolonial / / edited by Simone Bignall and Paul Patton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-74968-4

9786612749681

0-7486-3701-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Deleuze connections, , 1750-2241

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction : Deleuze and the postcolonial : conversations, negotiations, mediations / Simone Bignall and Paul Patton -- Living in smooth space : Deleuze, postcolonialism and the subaltern / Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey -- Postcolonial theory and the geographical materialism of desire / John K. Noyes -- Postcolonial visibilities : questions inspired by Deleuze's method / Rey Chow -- Affective assemblages : ethics beyond enjoyment / Simone Bignall -- The postcolonial event : Deleuze, glissant and the problem of the political / Nick Nesbitt -- Postcolonial haecceities / Réda Bensmaïa, translated by Paul Gibbard -- 'Another perspective on the world' : shame and subtraction in Louis Malle's L'inde fantôme / Timothy Bewes -- Becoming-nomad : territorialisation and resistance in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Grant Hamilton -- Violence and laughter : paradoxes of nomadic thought in postcolonial cinema / Patricia Pisters -- The production of Terra nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian conflict / Marcelo Svirsky -- Virtually postcolonial? / Philip Leonard -- In search of the perfect escape : Deleuze, movement and Canadian postcolonialism / Jennifer Blair.

Sommario/riassunto

The first collection of essays to bring together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory.