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Out of Africa :/ post-structuralism's colonial roots Pal Ahluwalia - 1st ed. - Abingdon, Oxon, England ;: Routledge, c2010. - xi, 192 p. ;

Introduction
Postcolonialism as a child of post-striicturalism and
postmodernism
Specular and syncretic border intellectuals
The worldliness of theoiy
The Algerian connection
Exile andpostcolonial identity
Modernity, ambivalence and the postcolonial condition
Subaltern studies, provincializing Europe and postcolonial
studies
Alternative modernity
Decolonising forms oflmowledge and postcolonial
futures
Scope and organisation
Algeria and colonisation
Algeria and the French colonial project
Colonial Algeria: the consolidation of the settlers
The rise of nationalism and decolonisation
The Algerian War
Remembering Algeria
Conclusion
Sartre, Camus and Fanon
Introduction
Sartre
Camus
Fanon
The desire to be white
Fanon's nausea
Humanism and colonialism
Colonial violence and new humanism
Postcolonial transformation
From decolonisation to liberation
Conclusion
Derrida
Origins
Origin and displacement
Politics, identity and dijferance
Structure, sign and play
Circumcision
Monolingualism
Death and spectres
Conclusion
Cixous
Algeriance
Autobiography and footprints
Feminine writing
The gift
Fiction and theoty
Theatre and myth
Death and loss
Cixous and Bakhtin
Cixous and Derrida
Conclusion
Althusser, Bourdieu, Foucault and Lyotard
Althusser
Bourdieu
Habitus
Structuralism
Moralism
Foucault
The Iranian revolution
Lyotard
Algeria
The post-modern condition
Conclusion
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