Deleuze and the Postcolonial

by Bignall, Simone; Patton, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780748637003
• ISBN10: 0748637001
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Rey Chow, Philip Leonard, Nick Nesbitt, John K. Noyes, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky and Simon Tormey - to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study.They deal with colonial and postcolonial social, cultural and political issues in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Palestine. Topics include colonial government, nation building and ethics in the contemporary context of globalisation and decolonisation; issues relating to resistance, transformation and agency; and questions of 'representation' and discursive power as practiced through postcolonial art, cinema and literature.This book constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. It will be of interest to students in cultural studies, cinema and film studies, languages and literature, political and postcolonial studies, critical theory, social and political philosophy.

Author Biography

Simone Bignall is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy and
Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy, both at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Deleuze and the Postcolonial: Conversations, Negotiations, Mediations	p. 1
Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern	p. 20
Postcolonial Theory and the Geographical Materialism of Desire	p. 41
Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method	p. 62
Affective Assemblages: Ethics beyond Enjoyment	p. 78
The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant and the Problem of the Political	p. 103
Postcolonial Haecceities	p. 119
'Another Perspective on the World': Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle's L'Inde fantôme	p. 163
Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians	p. 183
Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought in Postcolonial Cinema	p. 201
The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict	p. 220
Virtually Postcolonial?	p. 251
In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement and Canadian Postcolonialism	p. 272
Notes on Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 301
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