UID:
kobvindex_HPB985447636
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021.
ISBN:
9780822372363
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0822372363
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9780822369226
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0822369222
Content:
Challenges a core, fraught dimension of geopolitical, cultural, and scholarly endeavor: the drive toward mastery over the self and others. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, the author traces how pervasive the concept of mastery has been to modern politics and anticolonial movements. The author juxtaposes destructive uses of mastery, such as the colonial domination of bodies, against more laudable forms, such as intellectual and linguistic mastery, to underscore how the concept -- regardless of its use -- is rooted in histories of violence and the wielding of power. For anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi, forms of bodily mastery were considered to be the key to a decolonial future. Yet as the author demonstrates, their advocacy for mastery unintentionally reinforced colonial logics. In readings of postcolonial literature by J.M. Coetzee, Mahasweta Devi, Indra Sinha, and Jamaica Kincaid, the author suggests that only by moving beyond the compulsive desire to become masterful human subjects can we disentangle ourselves from the legacies of violence and fantasies of invulnerability that lead us to hurt other humans, animals, and the environment.
Note:
Introduction: reading against mastery -- Decolonizing mastery -- The language of mastery -- Posthumanitarian fictions -- Humanimal dispossessions -- Cultivating discomfort -- Coda: surviving mastery.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Singh, Julietta, 1976- Unthinking mastery. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780822369226
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
Duke University Press
URL:
HathiTrust Digital Library
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822372363
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URL:
Burman University Access
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URL:
University of Alberta Access
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