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Abdelkebir Khatibi
Au Juste
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Azouz Begag
Ben Jelloun
Beur Identity
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collective identity formation
cultural hybridity
Derrida analysis
Edouard Glissant
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Esprit Critique
French Language
French postcolonialism
Home Town
immigrant literature studies
Jane Hiddleston
La Terre
Late Twentieth Century Philosophy
Les Yeux
Nancy's Work
North African Culture
North African Immigrant
poststructuralist theory
Qui Ne
Rachid Boudjedra
Rapport Sans Rapport
Sebbar's Work
Singular Beings
Singular Idioms
singularity versus community in philosophy
SOS Racisme
Stress Incompatibility
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781904713029
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing.
Jane Hiddleston is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.
