{"product_id":"postcolonial-theory-and-autobiography-1","title":"Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eCultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and \u003cem\u003ePostcolonial Theory and Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience, investigation, and knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56657208574296,"sku":"9780415353427","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/postcolonial-theory-and-autobiography-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}