Absolutely Postcolonial Writing Between the Singular and the Specific
Absolutely Postcolonial Writing Between the Singular and the Specific by Peter Hallward, published by Manchester University Press in 2001, is a comprehensive exploration of the category of ‘postcolonial’ literature. This edition spans 433 pages and is presented in English. Hallward challenges conventional associations of postcolonialism with plurality and resistance, proposing instead that it should be understood as a singular configuration that generates its own existence independent of external criteria.
In this work, Hallward delves into the nuances of postcolonial discourse, drawing comparisons to concepts in Buddhism, Islam, and the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. The book presents a new conceptual distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation, aiming to influence various discourses within literary criticism, semiotics, and political science. Readers will find a rigorous examination of colonialism and post-colonialism, as well as insights into the theoretical frameworks that underpin these discussions.
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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 other singularities – pertinent comparisons include aspects of Buddhism and Islam, as well as concepts drawn from the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou – what is distinctive about a postcolonial discourse or literature is its abstraction from the domain of relationality. Here, Hallward offers a new conceptual distinction between singular and specific modes of differentiation, which should prove influential in a range of discourses.
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