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...

• 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"