This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing. Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self. The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval.

About the Author
Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.

Reviews
A thorough, well-researched and well-written piece of scholarship. Though it covers a lot of ground, and deals with six notoriously complex and prolific thinkers, the overall project is impressively focused and coherent...This is clearly an accomplished piece of work, and it will be a valuable addition to the growing literature on the topic.
Peter Hallward, Middlesex University



Book Information
ISBN 9781846312304
Author Jane Hiddleston
Format Hardback
Page Count 207
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press