Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Deleuze and the Postcolonial: Conversations, Negotiations, Mediations
- 1 Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern
- 2 Postcolonial Theory and the Geographical Materialism of Desire
- 3 Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method
- 4 Affective Assemblages: Ethics beyond Enjoyment
- 5 The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant and the Problem of the Political
- 6 Postcolonial Haecceities
- 7 ‘Another Perspective on the World’: Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle's L'Inde fantôme
- 8 Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
- 9 Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought in Postcolonial Cinema
- 10 The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict
- 11 Virtually Postcolonial?
- 12 In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement and Canadian Postcolonialism
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- EUP JOURNALS ONLINE
Introduction - Deleuze and the Postcolonial: Conversations, Negotiations, Mediations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Deleuze and the Postcolonial: Conversations, Negotiations, Mediations
- 1 Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern
- 2 Postcolonial Theory and the Geographical Materialism of Desire
- 3 Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method
- 4 Affective Assemblages: Ethics beyond Enjoyment
- 5 The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant and the Problem of the Political
- 6 Postcolonial Haecceities
- 7 ‘Another Perspective on the World’: Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle's L'Inde fantôme
- 8 Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
- 9 Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought in Postcolonial Cinema
- 10 The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict
- 11 Virtually Postcolonial?
- 12 In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement and Canadian Postcolonialism
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- EUP JOURNALS ONLINE
Summary
Conversations
The collection of essays assembled in this volume constructs a series of conversations between Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory, canvassing the relationship between Deleuze's concepts, the phenomena of the postcolony and the project of decolonisation. As an act of engagement, a ‘conversation’ may take various forms, including ‘speaking with’, ‘speaking to’, ‘speaking about’ and ‘speaking for’. In different ways, the contributions participate in each of these aspects of conversational interaction. The starting premise for this collection, also defining the rationale for its production, concerns the problematic lack of mutuality, or else the mutual disregard, which previous scholarship has highlighted as characteristic of the relationship between Deleuze and the postcolonial. Deleuze does not directly ‘speak with’ the thinkers and writers of the postcolony, and postcolonial theory seldom engages with Deleuzian philosophy in a sustained or comprehensive way, despite the abundance of Deleuzian motifs in postcolonial discourse. When theorists have directly considered postcolonial influences of/upon Deleuzian philosophy, they have usually done so in a critical and dismissive fashion.
For some, his failure to relate expressly to postcolonial issues does not simply suggest a careless lack of concern on Deleuze's part, but also the more worrying possibility that his silence on colonialism conceals a certain Eurocentric self-interest, a neo-imperial motivation or a hidden or unacknowledged desire to deflect attention away from the political concerns of the postcolony. Deleuze is accordingly condemned for his lack of explicit engagement with the body of postcolonial thought and with colonialism as a problematic site of analysis.
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- Deleuze and the Postcolonial , pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010