Unthinking Mastery Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

• Main Author: Singh, Juliette
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Duke University Press 2018; Duke University Press Books
• Edition: 1
• 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
• ISBN: 0822369397; 9780822369394; 9780822369226; 0822369222; 9780822372363; 0822372363; 1478091045; 9781478091042
• DOI: 10.1215/9780822372363

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...