Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Series
Auteur : Huddart David
Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn.
Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories.
Offering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience, investigation, and knowledge.
1. Postcolonial Theories of Autobiography and Autobiography in Postcolonial Theory 2. Re-defining Autobiography 3. Inventing the Postcolonial Author 4. Writing Spirits Autobiography 5. 'Full Disclosure' and the Native Informant in Postcolonial Theory 6. Singularity and Postcolonial Exemplarity 7. Bibliography
David Huddart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge, 2005). His research interests cover postcolonial literature, literary theory, and the history of English languages.
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Mots-clés :
Autobiographical Theory; autobiographical; Postcolonial Theory; turn; Derrida’s Monolingualism; homi; Postcolonial Criticism; bhabha; Spivak’s Work; aijaz; Autobiographical Turn; ahmad; Universal Subjectivity; derridas; Spivak’s Writing; work; Post-colonial Theory; moment; Post-colonial Criticism; mans; Bhubaneswari Bhaduri; Subaltern Speak; Postcolonial Reason; Foucault’s Text; Post-colonial Studies; Discursive Threshold; LPH; Autobiographical Moment; Derrida’s Reading; Subaltern Consciousness; Descartes’s Text; Constitutive Foreignness; Scattered Speculations; Hegelian Philosophical System; Subaltern Studies