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Diagnosing postcolonial literature : Deleuze and health
- Title
- Diagnosing postcolonial literature : Deleuze and health / Don Johnston.
- Author
- Johnston, Don, 1970-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature explores how Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health and that great authors are consequently diagnosticians of their culture can be applied to postcolonial literature. This genuinely interdisciplinary work breaks new ground both for the study of postcolonial literature and applications of Deleuze and Guattari"--
- Subject
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
- Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992
- Pepetela > Criticism and interpretation
- Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib > Criticism and interpretation
- Pepetela
- Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib
- 1900-2099
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Social history in literature
- Postcolonialism
- Literature and society > Africa > History > 20th century
- Literature and society > Africa > History > 21st century
- Literature and society
- Africa
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Postcolonial Theory's Heedlessness to Health, "D"evelopment's Disregard for Postcolonialism -- Elaborating a Postcolonial Symptomatology -- Those Excluded by the City: Pepetela and Angola's "Savage Capitalism" -- Becoming-Witness: The Conflagration of the Arab Community and the Sudanese Arab Writer, Tayeb Salih.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6208
- ISBN
- 9781793631329
- 1793631328
- LCCN
- 2020050841
- 40030431386
- OCLC
- 1221557641
- Author
- Johnston, Don, 1970- author.
- Title
- Diagnosing postcolonial literature : Deleuze and health / Don Johnston.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Johnston, Don, 1970- Diagnosing postcolonial literature Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781793631336 (DLC) 2020050842
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030431386
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6208