Signifying with a vengeance
Subtitle: theories, literatures, storytellers
By: Mustapha Marrouchi.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Gates, Henry Louis; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Postcolonialism -- United States; African Americans in literature
Description: "In Signifying with a Vengeance, Mustapha Marrouchi traces the development of another way of narrating postcolonial literature, one that positions acts of subversion and resistance as central to the unfolding dialogue between the West and the Rest. Writing outside the Western gaze, not against it, Marrouchi explores the relationship between postcolonial tradition and "high" theory, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the subaltern voice to represent itself.

In the process, he uses the critical framework to examine several major works of postcolonial literature, including V.S. Naipaul's A Way in the World, Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sacred Night, Said's Orientalism, Jacques Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other, and Toni Morrison's Paradise."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: THEORIES OF THE TRADITION; title: Chapter 1 MICHEL FOUCAULT MISSIONARY OF TRANSGRESSION; title: Chapter 2 DERRIDALGERIANCE; OR, THE PROSTHESIS OF DECONSTRUCTION; title: Chapter 3 COUNTERNARRATIVES, RECOVERIES, REFUSALS; title: PART TWO; title: READING THE TRADITION OF THE POSTCOLONIAL; title: Chapter 4 V.S. NAIPAUL: A CRITIQUE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SIGN; title: Chapter 5 FEAR OF THE OTHER, LOATHING THE SIMILAR; title: Chapter 6 ON FRICTION IN FICTION: MY AUNT IS A MAN; title: NOTES; title: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: INDEX.