OUT OF AFRICA by Pal Ahluwalia ( 9781135161781 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

OUT OF AFRICA
POST-STRUCTURALISM'S COLONIAL ROOTS

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ISBN 10:

113516178X

ISBN 13:

9781135161781

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 April, 2010

Series:

Postcolonial Politics

Pages:

208

Synopsis:

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong `colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The `biographical' fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised. Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact has colonial and postcolonial roots. This is an important argument, and one that `connects' two theoretical currents that continue to be of great interest, post-structuralism and postcolonialism.The re-reading of what is now familiar material against the background of de-colonial struggles demonstrates the extent to which it is this new condition that prompted theory to question long-held assumptions inscribed in the European colonial enterprise. The wide-ranging discussion, ranging across authors as different as Foucault, Derrida, Fanon, Althusser, Cixous, Bourdieu and Lyotard, enables the reader to make connections that have remained unnoticed or been neglected. It also brings back into view a history of struggles, both political and theoretical, that has shaped the landscape of critique in the social sciences and humanities. This clear and lucid discussion of important and often difficult thinkers will be widely read and widely debated by students and academics alike.

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Routledge

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