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Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Harrison, Nicholas ^a  

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EID: 62449196585     PISSN: 02648334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/para.2005.28.2.1     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Robert Young, 'Ideologies of the Postcolonial', Editorial in Interventions 1:1 (1998/9), 4-8
2. London and New York, Routledge, 2004
3. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 1999)
4. th of September). From a less short-sighted, less ahistorical point of view, it would be just as striking that almost nothing has changed in the discipline in France for decades' ('Votum Mortis', www.fabula.org/cgi-bin/ imprimer.pl?doc=/revue/cr.449.php, 27.01.04). I am not convinced that things are so static in France, but Spivak's engagement with the academic landscape in which she works certainly seems characteristic of that landscape, not least because of her heightened sense of disciplinary development and direction (albeit, in this case, towards death): only in that context, I suspect, could such a gulf of retrospection open up within two years
5. Pavel, review of Dorrit Cohn, The Distinction of Fiction (Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1998)
6. Comparative Literature 53:1 (Winter 2001), 83-5:84
7. 'An image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness', Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987 (Oxford, Heinemann, 1988), 1-13: 7
8. Paris, Galilée, 1994; Politics of Friendship, translated by George Collins (London, Verso, 1997)
9. Paris, Gallimard, 1948; What is Literature? translated by Bernard Frechtman (London, Methuen, 1950)
10. The Literary Absolute (Albany, SUNY Press, 1988)
11. See too Derrida's passing reference to Zhdanovism, Acts of Literature, 38
12. Acts of Literature, 68. The relation between singularity and generality is an important one for Attridge, and also, in a different way, for Steven Knapp, whose Literary Interest sees a correlation between literature's characteristic relation of the particular to the general and the structure of human agency as such