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: 01/02/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822369394

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