Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory

By Jane Hiddleston

This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing.

Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self.

The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846312302
• ISBN13: 9781846312304
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"