In this Book

Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Book
Julietta Singh
2018
Published by: Duke University Press
summary
Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.

Table of Contents

Cover

Half Title, Title Page, Copyright

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-xii

Introduction. Reading against Mastery

pp. 1-28

1. Decolonizing Mastery

pp. 29-64

2. The Language of Mastery

pp. 65-94

3. Posthumanitarian Fictions

pp. 95-120

4. Humanimal Dispossessions

pp. 121-148

5. Cultivating Discomfort

pp. 149-170

Coda. Surviving Mastery

pp. 171-176

Notes

pp. 177-186

References

pp. 187-196

Index

pp. 197-201
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