Postcolonial theory and autobiography

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The work Postcolonial theory and autobiography represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Postcolonial theory and autobiography

Statement of responsibility

David Huddart

Creator

• Huddart, David, (David Paul,)
• Huddart, David, (David Paul)
• Huddart, David, (David Paul)

Subject

• Biography as a literary form
• Biography as a literary form
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Autobiography
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Postcolonialism
• Autobiography
• Postcolonialism

Language

eng

Summary

"Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn." "Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories." "Offering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience, investigation, and knowledge."--BOOK JACKET

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Series volume

20