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Postcolonial Derrida: A Book Reading and Conversation
Sean Meighoo (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University) will present a reading from his book, Postcolonial Derrida, to be followed by a conversation with Edinburgh Philosophy students and staff members on the complicated relationship between Derrida’s philosophical work and postcolonial theory.
In #Postcolonial #Derrida, Sean Meighoo argues that Derrida’s philosophical work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such. Critically reading some of Derrida’s most famous texts in addition to some of his lesser-known ones, Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with a diverse range of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia as well as African American and French feminist thinkers and writers including Toni Morrison, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Hélène #Cixous, V.S. #Naipaul, Nelson #Mandela, M.K. #Gandhi, and Martin Luther #King, Jr.
OpenAccess: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-postcolonial-derrida.html
Postcolonial Derrida: A Book Reading and Conversation
Sean Meighoo (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University) will present a reading from his book, Postcolonial Derrida, to be followed by a conversation with Edinburgh Philosophy students and staff members on the complicated relationship between Derrida’s philosophical work and postcolonial theory.
In #Postcolonial #Derrida, Sean Meighoo argues that Derrida’s philosophical work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such. Critically reading some of Derrida’s most famous texts in addition to some of his lesser-known ones, Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with a diverse range of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia as well as African American and French feminist thinkers and writers including Toni Morrison, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Hélène #Cixous, V.S. #Naipaul, Nelson #Mandela, M.K. #Gandhi, and Martin Luther #King, Jr.
