P. Leonard, Nationality between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory

LEONARD, Philip, Nationality between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory. A New Cosmopolitanism, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 200 p.

ISBN: 1-4039-1912-7

Book description:

This work examines the complex and contested intersection of poststructuralist and postcolonial theories in work by key theorists--Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha--and assesses the sometimes difficult relationship that they have with Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. This book also shows how these theorists often challenge each others' conclusions about cultural power and don't, as some believe, collectively celebrate "the postnational". Central to these debates are the concepts of community, globalization, cosmopolitanism, Europe and European colonialism, modernity, and postcoloniality.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Two Thousand Years of The End of Europe

* Before, across and beyond: Derrida, without national community

* New concepts of unknown lands: Deleuze and Guattari's non-nationalitarianisms

* Atopic and utopic: Kristeva's strange cosmopolitanism

* In the shadow of shadows: Spivak, misreading, the native informant

* Multiple beliefs and split subjects: Bhabha, aporia and hybridity

* Post-script

* Bibliography

* Index

About the author:

Philip Leonard is a lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University