Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements /

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 poli...

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Main Author: Singh, Julietta, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reading against mastery
  • Decolonizing mastery
  • The language of mastery
  • Posthumanitarian fictions
  • Humanimal dispossessions
  • Cultivating discomfort
  • Coda: surviving mastery.