Deleuze and the Postcolonial

Edited by Simone Bignall and Paul Patton

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Paper, 284 pages, 7
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3700-3
$35.00

April, 2010
Cloth, 284 pages, 7
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3699-0
Edinburgh University Press
$115.00

This is the first anthology to unite Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Paul Patton and Simone Bignall assemble leading figures, including Reda Bensmaïa, Rey Chow, Nick Nesbitt, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky, and Simon Tormey, to explore the rich links between colonial and postcolonial social, cultural, and political issues within Asia, Africa, the Americas, India, and Palestine. Colonial government, nation building, and ethics in the context of globalization and decolonization are explored through desire, sexuality, and agency, and questions of "representation" and discursive power are illuminated in examples taken from postcolonial art, cinema, and literature.

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

Series

• Deleuze Connections (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Simone Bignall is a visiting fellow in the School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales. She has published widely on Deleuze, Guattari, feminism, and postcolonial politics, particularly in relation to issues of transformative agency. Her book, Postcolonial Agency, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.Paul Patton is a professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Deleuze and the Political, editor of Deleuze: A Critical Reader, and coeditor, with John Protevi, of Between Deleuze and Derrida. Patton has contributed to a number of Edinburgh University's Press's titles on Deleuze, including The Deleuze Dictionary, Deleuze and the Social, and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy. He also translated Gilles Deleuze's key philosophical work, Difference and Repetition.

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