Reinventing Community

Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-century Philosophy and Literature in French

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Reinventing Community by Jane Hiddlestone, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Jane Hiddlestone ISBN: 9781351195737
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: December 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Jane Hiddlestone
ISBN: 9781351195737
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: December 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

"During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing."

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"During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing."

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