Unthinking Mastery Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not c...

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Main Author Singh, Juliette
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Duke University Press 2018
Duke University Press Books
Edition1
Subjects
Anti-imperialism
Coetzee, J. M.,-1940
Criticism and interpretation
Decolonization
Frantz Fanon
Gender Studies
Kincaid, Jamaica-Criticism and interpretation
LITERARY CRITICISM
Literature
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahāśvetā Debī,-1926-2016-Criticism and interpretation
Nonfiction
PHILOSOPHY
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Sinha, Indra-Criticism and interpretation
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
Subjectivity
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Summary:Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.
Bibliography:6 illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-196) and index
Relevant Wikipedia pages: Anti-imperialism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-imperialism; Decolonization - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization; Frantz Fanon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon; Mahatma Gandhi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi; Postcolonialism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism; Subjectivity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity
21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9780822369226
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ISBN:0822369397
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DOI:10.1215/9780822372363