Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures

by Burns, Lorna; Kaiser, Birgit M.

• ISBN13: 9780230348257
• ISBN10: 0230348254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory.

Author Biography

Lorna Burns is Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Lincoln, UK. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and has taught at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-continental Philosophy (2012). Birgit M. Kaiser teachers Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Figures of Simplicity: Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (2011).

Table of Contents

"This volume offers an impressive line-up of scholars, who tackle the complex intersection between Deleuze's philosophy and postcolonial literature head on and with a laudable thoroughness. The strength of these essays lies in the quality of the scholarship behind them; the authors all engage fully with the difficult philosophical concepts that both Deleuze and postcolonial theory presents. At the same time the pieces are logical, well written and clearly argued." - Visiting Tutor, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK