Unthinking Mastery

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Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data
Names: Singh, Julietta, [date] author.
Title: Unthinking mastery : dehumanism and decolonial
entanglements / Julietta Singh.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2017019894 (print)
lccn 2017021286 (ebook)
isbn 9780822372363 (ebook)
isbn 9780822369226 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 9780822369394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Postcolonialism in literature. | Power (Social
sciences) in literature. | Coetzee, J. M., 1940– —Criticism and
interpretation. | Mahāśvetā Debī, 1926– 20 16—Criticism and
interpretation. | Sinha, Indra—Criticism and interpretation. |
Kincaid, Jamaica—Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: lcc pn56.p555 (ebook) | lcc pn56.p555 s55 2017
(print) | ddc 809/.93358—dc
lc record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /

Cover art: Sarah Anne Johnson, Party Boat, 2011.

Scratched chromogenic print, photospotting and acrylic

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the artist.