Unthinking mastery : dehumanism and decolonial entanglements / Julietta Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Julietta, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Coetzee, J. M.

Mahāśvetā Debī, 1926-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Mahāśvetā Debī.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC Duke University Press 2017

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In UNTHINKING MASTERY Julietta Singh demonstrates how pervasive the concept of mastery has been to modern politics, even to anti-colonial thought, which rejects forms of political domination and subjection. Anti-colonial discourse, Singh argues, has sought to recuperate the humanity of the colonized in ways that remain bound to masterful formulations of subjectivity. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, Singh analyzes critiques of mastery across anti-colonial discourse to explore how modern formulations of decolonization that were explicitly pitched against colonial mastery continuously rehearse other forms of mastery in order to exceed it. Singh's goal isn't to discipline important figures from anti-colonial politics or the contemporary intellectual left, but rather to take seriously the messiness of our political strategies in the hope of deriving un-masterful styles of being.

Contents:

Introduction: reading against mastery

Decolonizing mastery

The language of mastery

Posthumanitarian fictions

Humanimal dispossessions

Cultivating discomfort

Coda: surviving mastery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372363

0822372363

OCLC:

985447636

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access