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Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature

Deleuze and Health
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 2021

Summary

Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature is a fresh and needed intervention into the study of postcolonial literature and the postcolonial condition. Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health, and that great authors consequently are diagnosticians of their culture, can be applied to postcolonial literature. The methodology, however, goes beyond the Deleuzian approach and offers a rich synthesis of Deleuze and Guattari with a range of different frameworks including health and human rights issues, the capabilities approach of Sen and Nussbaum, and the quantitative formalism of Moretti. This book majorly seeks to combine the study of postcolonial literature (a field in which Deleuze and Guattari are often used) with social sciences and quantitative methods. The work is genuinely interdisciplinary and breaks new ground both for the study of postcolonial literature and applications of Deleuze and Guattari. It does this while maintaining a focus on 'health', broadly conceived in as an assemblage, in Deleuzian fashion.

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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3132-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3133-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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Table of contents

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    1. Dedication No access
    2. Contents No access
    3. List of Tables and Figures No access
    4. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Chapter 1 Postcolonial Theory’s Heedlessness to Health, “D”evelopment’s Disregard for Postcolonialism No access Pages 1 - 38
  2. Chapter 2 Elaborating a Postcolonial Symptomatology No access Pages 39 - 66
  3. Chapter 3 Those Excluded by the City No access Pages 67 - 126
  4. Chapter 4 Becoming-Witness No access Pages 127 - 190
  5. Chapter 5 Conclusion No access Pages 191 - 200
  6. Appendix No access Pages 201 - 204
  7. Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 220
  8. Index No access Pages 221 - 224
  9. About the Author No access Pages 225 - 226

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