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03759aam a2200541 i 4500 001 90892150580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170428t20182018ncua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017019894 020 $a 0822369397 020 $a 9780822369394 020 $a 0822369222 020 $a 9780822369226 035 $a (OCoLC)966562634 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c NDD $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d CBY $d WEL $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.P555 $b S55 2018 082 00 $a 809/.93358 $2 23 100 1 $a Singh, Julietta, $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Unthinking mastery : $b dehumanism and decolonial entanglements / $c Julietta Singh. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xi, 201 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: reading against mastery -- Decolonizing mastery -- The language of mastery -- Posthumanitarian fictions -- Humanimal dispossessions -- Cultivating discomfort -- Coda: surviving mastery. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Coetzee, J. M., $d 1940- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 00 $a MahaÌsÌvetaÌ DebiÌ, $d 1926-2016 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Sinha, Indra $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Kincaid, Jamaica $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Coetzee, J. M., $d 1940- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00117350 600 17 $a Kincaid, Jamaica. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00116264 600 07 $a MahaÌsÌvetaÌ DebiÌ, $d 1926-2016. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00081355 600 17 $a Sinha, Indra. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00068204 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) in literature. 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a Power (Social sciences) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01074235 650 7 $a Herrschaft $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4159643-2 650 7 $a Literaturtheorie $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4036031-3 650 7 $a Postkoloniale Literatur $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4428936-4 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Singh, Julietta, 1976- $t Unthinking mastery. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 $z 9780822372363 $w (DLC) 2017021286 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020024057.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092916.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023653.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=90892150580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search