| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 260 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Plateaus
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Plateaus.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Series Information; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Critique; 1 The Problem of the Negative; 2 Postcolonial Appropriations; 3 The Problem of the Actual; Part II Constructivism; 4 Power/Desire; 5 Subjectivity; 6 What is 'Postcolonial'?; Conclusion: Postcolonial Agency; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples. It offers new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to responsibly transform this historical injustice. Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy including Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and Deleuze, to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of pos. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. |
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bignall, Simone. Postcolonial agency. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 9780748639434 (DLC) 2010474131 (OCoLC)506249256 |
| ISBN |
9780748642441 (electronic book) |
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0748642447 (electronic book) |
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9780748639434 (hardback) |
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0748639438 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612749865 |
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