Unthinking Mastery
88 chApter two does not long for African writers to master the languages of his colonizers; he envisions instead an African lite ...
the lAnguAge of mAstery 89 me again.” His relationship with language is tense, and the war between them has its ups and downs, b ...
90 chApter two the study of how language escapes, evades, and crystallizes differently at different times and through different ...
the lAnguAge of mAstery 91 ship to our intellectual fields. Rather, I am advancing a practice of vulner- able engagement, a prac ...
92 chApter two ticulated this as a collectivity among specialized “language masters.” This irresistible return to mastery from o ...
the lAnguAge of mAstery 93 If what distinguishes world literature today from its early iterations is its particular drive to und ...
94 chApter two over vast or miniscule, human or inhuman terrains—pushes us toward different forms of scholarship and different r ...
CHAPTER 3 3 Posthumanitarian Fictions Despite the popular mantra of multiculturalism in the 1980s, I grew up in central Canada a ...
96 chApter three acies far exceeded our own. Despite my father’s protests, we moved into what would become my mother’s decades- ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 97 scene of my own self- formation. We do not always understand why we at- tach ourselves to certain t ...
98 chApter three The figure of the humanitarian and its narrative attachments illustrate how our conceptions of the “best” human ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 99 humanitarian actor, the reader is delivered into liberal desire squarely within and alongside the f ...
100 chApter three ultimately urge readers beyond a politics of compassion for the other, di- recting the reader back to its own ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 101 states in the place of any others, unknown though they may be” (2010, 62). Because empathetic read ...
102 chApter three define global relations. In posthumanitarian fictions, narrative form and fissure reveal humanitarianism to be ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 103 and enforcing one’s own power in the humanitarian effort, by upholding the narrative of humanitari ...
104 chApter three tarian imaginary,” emphasizing how humanitarian subjectivities are foun- dationally shaped by forms of mastery ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 105 jects within their reach” (2006, 111). Ahmed’s argument builds on the ways the world becomes orien ...
106 chApter three While the medical officer imagines himself to be a caregiver in pursuit of healing, he confronts the fact that ...
posthumAnItArIAn fIctIons 107 Set against this scene of absolute dehumanization are details of the comforts afforded to Singh as ...
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