Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9780415353427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

Huddart David; David Huddart

Opis

Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories. It relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that rethink and extend norms of experience and knowledge.

Recenzje

"Although autobiography has been criticized as narrowly ethnocentric and paternalist and as promoting the view of the (masculine and Western) subject as universal, Huddart (English, Chinese U. of Hong Kong) suggests in contrast that autobiography can serve as a form of resistance to universalist concepts and theories. Engaging both post- structuralism and postcolonial theory in order to construct this argument, he conducts readings of such critical figures as Edward Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in the context of the writings of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou." -- Book News Inc., August 2008

Spis treści

1. Postcolonial Theories of Autobiography and Autobiography in Postcolonial Theory  2. Re-defining Autobiography  3. Inventing the Postcolonial Author  4. Writing Spirits Autobiography  5. 'Full Disclosure' and the Native Informant in Postcolonial Theory  6. Singularity and Postcolonial Exemplarity  7. Bibliography

O autorze

David Huddart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge, 2005). His research interests cover postcolonial literature, literary theory, and the history of English languages.