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基本説明
This book argues that the category 'postcolonial' is best used to describe an ultimately singular or non-relational configuration, through readings of four of the most significant writers whose work invites to a singular interpretation.
Full 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.
Contents
Introduction: Singular or specific?
1. Postcolonial theory
2. Edouard Glissant: from nation to Relation
3. Charles Johnson and the transcendence of place
4. Mohammed Dib and the 'alarm al-mithral: between the singular and the specific
5. Severo Sarduy: sunyata and beyond
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index