Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 8)

Postcolonialism across the Disciplines

by Jane Hiddleston

In Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality, Jane Hiddleston explores poststructuralist anxiety about how to theorize postcoloniality and cultural difference. Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers have addressed questions of postcolonialism and cultural domination. However, in Hiddleston’s analysis, these thinkers cannot maintain neutrality in their theoretical discourse because they write simultaneously about problems of cultural identification and exile in the postcolonial epoch. A remarkable contribution by a leading scholar, this volume demonstrates how poststructuralist reflections on postcolonialism leave theory itself, perplexingly, at sea.

207 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 2010