Out of Africa: Post-Structuralism's Colonial Roots

by Pal Ahluwalia

Book Overview

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong 'colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The 'biographical' fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised. Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact has colonial and postcolonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415570700
• ISBN13: 9780415570701
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"