Postcolonial Derrida (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399554817)

Jacques Derrida remains one of the most renowned intellectuals in the areas of philosophy, literary studies, and cultural criticism today. Yet the close relationship between Derrida's philosophical work and postcolonial theory - or their 'affinity, ' as he once put it himself - has been largely neglected within contemporary scholarship. This book makes the case that Derrida's work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such. Rather than rehearse the biographical details of his personal life, it provides a postcolonial reading of Derrida's work by bringing him into conversation with a diverse array of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, as well as various African American and French feminist thinkers and writers.

Author: Sean Meighoo
ISBN-10: 1399554816
ISBN-13: 9781399554817
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d