Introduction - Deleuze and the postcolonial - conversations, negotiations, mediations - Simone Bignall and Paul Patton -- - Living in smooth space - Deleuze, postcolonialism and the subaltern - Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey -- - Postcolonial theory and the geographical materialism of desire - John K. Noyes -- - Postcolonial visibilities - questions inspired by Deleuze's method - Rey Chow -- - Affective assemblages - ethics beyond enjoyment - Simone Bignall -- - The postcolonial event - Deleuze, glissant and the problem of the political - Nick Nesbitt -- - Postcolonial haecceities - Réda Bensmaïa, translated by Paul Gibbard -- - 'Another perspective on the world' - shame and subtraction in Louis Malle's L'inde fantôme - Timothy Bewes -- - Becoming-nomad - territorialisation and resistance in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians - Grant Hamilton -- - Violence and laughter - paradoxes of nomadic thought in postcolonial cinema - Patricia Pisters -- - The production of Terra nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian conflict - Marcelo Svirsky -- - Virtually postcolonial? - Philip Leonard -- - In search of the perfect escape - Deleuze, movement and Canadian postcolonialism - Jennifer Blair
This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Rey Chow, Philip Leonard, Nick Nesbitt, John K. Noyes, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky and Simon Tormey - to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study. They deal with colonial and postcolonial social, cultural and political issues in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Palestine. Topics include colonial government, nation building and ethics in the contemporary context of globalisation and decolonisation; issues relating to resistance, transformation and agency; and questions of 'representation' and discursive power as practiced through postcolonial art, cinema and literature. This book constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. It will be of interest to students in cultural studies, cinema and film studies, languages and literature, political and postcolonial studies, critical theory, social and political philosophy
