Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory - A New Cosmopolitanism

'Leonard comprehensively and persuasively once and for all brings back to attention the political force of poststructuralism both before and beyond as well as within post-colonial studies.' - Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK Informationen zum Autor PHILIP LEONARD is a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where he teaches critical theory and twentieth century literature. He is the editor of Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature (Macmillan, 2000). Klappentext Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it explores how, for these theorists, the concepts of community, the new International, nomadism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, the native informant, hybridity and postcolonial agency can provoke a different understanding of national identity. Zusammenfassung Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Cosmopolitan Locations 'Before, Across and Beyond': Derrida, Without National Community 'New Concepts for Unknown Lands': Deleuze and Guattari's Non-nationalitarianisms 'Atopic and Utopic': Kristeva's Strange Cosmopolitanism 'In the Shadow of Shadows': Spivak, Misreading, the Native Informant 'To Move Through - and Beyond - Theory': Bhabha, Hybridity and Agency Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: P Leonard, P. Leonard, Philip Leonard
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2005
• EAN: 9781403919120
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-1912-0
• No. of pages: 205
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; B, Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Ethnic Studies, Strukturalismus und Post-Strukturalismus, Ethnicity, Literary theory, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Structuralism & Post-structuralism, poststructuralism