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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Reading against Mastery 1
1. Decolonizing Mastery 29
2. The Language of Mastery 65
3. Posthumanitarian Fictions 95
4. Humanimal Dispossessions 121
5. Cultivating Discomfort 149
Coda. Surviving Mastery 171
Notes 177
References 187
Index 197
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822369394
ISBN-10: 0822369397
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Singh, Julietta
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Julietta Singh
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2018
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 108016096