Unthinking Mastery
168 chApter fIve Wonderment and Time There is a fascinating moment toward the end of Among Flowers in which Kincaid is inspired ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 169 ically” (2010, xxii). Against what Freeman calls “chrononomativity,” which functions by organizing bo ...
170 chApter fIve While Kincaid registers the continuities between her wonderment toward and desire to hold mastery over the gard ...
Coda Surviving Mastery Toward the end of Aimé Césaire’s A Te m p e s t (Une Tempête, 1969), an anti- colonial play that rewrites ...
172 codA Caliban and Prospero remain together on the now ostensibly “postcolo- nial” island. While no longer structurally master ...
survIvIng mAstery 173 guards itself through particular dialectical political practices, ones that rely increasingly on mythical ...
174 codA we must begin to deconstruct our own movements (intellectual, activist, corporeal) that remain entangled with the viole ...
survIvIng mAstery 175 terful relations. Alongside Jack Halberstam, we might say that the undo- ing of masterful subjectivities c ...
176 codA what we can see or hear or touch have embedded themselves in us and have enabled and sustained our existences. The impo ...
Introduction 1 I capitalize “Man” in keeping with Sylvia Wynter’s differentiation between Man and the human. For Wynter, Man des ...
178 notes to IntroductIon Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012), exploring how nonhuman agencies (of animals, r ...
notes to IntroductIon 179 sconi 1998, 52). It was Hegel’s attempt, in fact, to prove that Africans had not yet reached a capacit ...
180 notes to chApter one 168– 69). If we follow Ahmad’s critique of Said as a selective thinker whose highly influential thought ...
notes to chApter two 181 break with or modification of his commitments to ahimsa and to brahmacharya in order to sustain life or ...
182 notes to chApter two the Indian context, she illustrates how the fantasy of dark- skinned male bodies as “dangers” to white ...
notes to chApter three 183 Posthumanitarian Fictions 1 Indra Sinha’s novel An i m a l’s Pe o p l e (2007), to which I turn in ...
184 notes to chApter three 7 While the emphasis here is on how government programs and the actions of Singh and other bureaucrat ...
notes to chApter fIve 185 masters but that in the act of this aping he performs humanity in a style that begins to unfold the al ...
186 notes to chApter fIve nist Theories of the Human (2014); and Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Colonial- ity of Being/Power/Tr ...
Achebe, Chinua. 1965. “English and the African Writer.” Transition, no. 18: 27– 3 0. ———. (1958) 1994. Things Fall Apart. New Yo ...
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