During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing.

About the Author
Jane Hiddleston is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.


Book Information
ISBN 9781904713029
Author Jane Hiddlestone
Format Paperback
Page Count 238
Imprint Legenda
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 320g