Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

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.

Author: Julietta Singh
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/22/2017
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822369226

About the Author
Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond.