Understanding Postcolonialism English 2022

Postcolonialism offerschallengingand provocative ways of thinking about colonial andneocolonialpower, about self and other, and about the discoursesthatperpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much oftheseminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currentsinphilosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. UnderstandingPostcolonialism examines the philosophy ofpostcolonialism in orderto reveal the often conflicting systems ofthought which underpinit. In so doing, the book presents areappraisal of the majorpostcolonial thinkers of the twentiethcentury. Ranging beyond the narrowselectionof theorists to which the field is often restricted, thebookexplores the work of Fanon and Sartre, Gandhi, Nandy, andtheSubaltern Studies Group, Foucault and Said, Derrida andBhabha,Khatibi and Glissant, and Spivak, Mbembe and Mudimbe. Aclear andaccessible introduction to the subject,UnderstandingPostcolonialism reveals how, almost half a centuryafterdecolonization, the complex relation between politics andethicscontinues to shape postcolonial thought. About The Author Jane Hiddleston is Lecturer in French attheUniversity of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.