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 1 Conclusion