Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific

by Peter Hallward

Book Overview

We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category 'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best used to describe an ultimately singular configuration. A singularity is something that generates the medium of its own existence, in the eventual absence of external criteria and other existences. Like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719061261
• ISBN13: 9780719061264
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"