1. Introduction -- 2. Algeria and colonisation -- 3. Sartre, Camus and Fanon -- 4. Derrida -- 5. Cixous -- 6. Althusser, Bourdieu, Foucault and Lyotard -- 7. Conclusion
Summary
At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong 'colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The 'biographical' fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised. Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact has colonial and postcolonial roots. This is an important argument, and one that 'connects' two theoretical currents that continue to be of great interest, post-structur
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index
