On representation : Deleuze and Coetzee on the colonized subject / Grant Hamilton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Absurdity and the Outside; Chapter One: The Body of Dusklands; Structures of Subjectification: The Enlightenment; Bodies, Incorporeals, and Becoming; Infinite Identity; Simulacra and Simulation; Suspension: The Body without Organs ; Judgment; Chapter Two: The Space of Waiting for the Barbarians; A Strong Geography; A Weak Geography; Smooth and Striated Space; The Nomad and the War Machine; Chapter Three: The Language of Foe; The Structure-Other; The Collapse of the Structure-Other; A Missing People.

The Exhaustion of Language as a New Condition of StruggleA Minor Language and a Minor Literature; Conclusion: The Other Question; Works Cited; Index.

In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee, and the work of the French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Centering on the key postcolonial problematic of representation, Hamilton argues that if one approaches the colonial subject through Gilles Deleuze's rewriting of subjectivity, then a transcendent configuration of the colonial subject is revealed. Importantly, it is this rendition of the colonial subject that accounts best for the way in which the colonial subject is able to propose and offer instances of resistance to colonial structures of subjectification. In elucidating this claim, the study turns to the fiction of Coetzee. Offering unique Deleuzean readings of three of Coetzee's most theoretically beguiling novels - Dusklands , Waiting for the Barbarians , and Foe - On Representation will prove to be essential reading to those interested in Coetzee studies, the literary terrain of Deleuze's philosophy, and those engaging with contemporary debates in postcolonial literature and theory.

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