Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it explores how, for these theorists, the concepts of community, the new International, nomadism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, the native informant, hybridity and postcolonial agency can provoke a different understanding of national identity.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Cosmopolitan Locations ‘Before, Across and Beyond’: Derrida, Without National Community ‘New Concepts for 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 ‘To Move Through – and Beyond – Theory’: Bhabha, Hybridity and Agency Notes Bibliography Index
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PHILIP LEONARD is a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where he teaches critical theory and twentieth century literature. He is the editor of
Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature (Macmillan, 2000).
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