TY  - GEN
AU  - Singh,Juliette
TI  - Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
SN  - 9780822372363
PY  - 2017///1222
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Literature
KW  - Anti-imperialism
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Frantz Fanon
KW  - Mahatma Gandhi
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Subjectivity
N1  - Open Access
N2  - In UNTHINKING MASTERY Julietta Singh demonstrates how pervasive the concept of mastery has been to modern politics, even to anti-colonial thought, which rejects forms of political domination and subjection. Anti-colonial discourse, Singh argues, has sought to recuperate the humanity of the colonized in ways that remain bound to masterful formulations of subjectivity. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, Singh analyzes critiques of mastery across anti-colonial discourse to explore how modern formulations of decolonization that were explicitly pitched against colonial mastery continuously rehearse "other" forms of mastery in order to exceed it. Singh's goal isn't to discipline important figures from anti-colonial politics or the contemporary intellectual left, but rather to take seriously the messiness of our political strategies in the hope of deriving un-masterful styles of being
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/68c47a71-7c25-4e2e-9ba1-d6ec23f85172/648165.pdf
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30252
ER  -