Deleuze and the Postcolonial

This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaïa, Rey Chow, Nick Nesbitt, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky and Simon Tormey - to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study. They deal with colonial and postcolonial social, cultural and political issues in Asia, Africa, the Americas, India and Palestine. Topics include colonial government, nation building and ethics in the contemporary context of globalisation and decolonisation, through issues relating to desire, sexuality and agency, to questions of 'representation' and discursive power as practiced through postcolonial art, cinema and literature.
This book constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. It will be of interest to students in cultural studies, cinema and film studies, languages and literature, political and postcolonial studies, critical theory, social and political philosophy.
Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and Simone Bignall is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy at the same University.

Acknowledgements; Introduction. Deleuze and Postcolonialism; 1. Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern; 2. Postcolonial Theory and the Materiality of Desire; 3. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method; 4. Affective Assemblages: Ethics Beyond Enjoyment; 5. The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant, and the Problem of the Political; 6. Postcolonial Haecceities; 7. 'Another Perspective on the World': Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle's L'Inde fantome; 8. Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; 9. Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought and Postcolonial Cinema; 10. The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict; 11. Virtually Postcolonial?; 12. In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement, and Canadian Postcolonialism; Notes on Contributors; Index.