{"product_id":"unthinking-mastery-9780822369226","title":"Unthinking Mastery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A deft intervention in several different fields,\u003ci\u003e Unthinking Mastery\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully examines the insidious ways that the legacies of colonialism have infiltrated critical conversations in affect, queer, and ecocritical studies.\" -- Melinda Backer * ASAP\/Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Singh’s work stands out in its truly transdisciplinary approach and simultaneous mobilization of feminist, posthuman, and decolonial thought.\" -- Justyna Poary-Wybranowska * Contemporary Women's Writing *\u003cbr\u003e\"While the approach of \u003ci\u003eUnthinking Mastery\u003c\/i\u003e is clearly interdisciplinary, the author turns foremost to the field of comparative literature to unravel forms of systemic dehumanizing violence that become obvious in forms of embodiment and language\/narration. ... Her engagement not only touches on feminist and queer theories but also provides a powerful interconnection between environmental and postcolonial studies.\" -- Monika Jaeckel * Anthropocenes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Reading against Mastery  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonizing Mastery  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Language of Mastery  65\u003cbr\u003e 3. Posthumanitarian Fictions  95\u003cbr\u003e 4. Humanimal Dispossessions  121\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cultivating Discomfort  149\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Surviving Mastery  171\u003cbr\u003e Notes  177\u003cbr\u003e References  187\u003cbr\u003e Index  197","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406105321815,"sku":"9780822369226","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369226.jpg?v=1730494547","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unthinking-mastery-9780822369226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}