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In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee, and the work of the French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Centering on the key postcolonial problematic of representation, Hamilton argues that if one approaches the colonial subject through Gilles Deleuze’s rewriting of subjectivity, then a transcendent configuration of the colonial subject is revealed. Importantly, it is this rendition of the colonial subject that accounts best for the way in which the colonial subject is able to propose and offer instances of resistance to colonial structures of subjectification. In elucidating this claim, the study turns to the fiction of Coetzee. Offering unique Deleuzean readings of three of Coetzee’s most theoretically beguiling novels – Dusklands , Waiting for the Barbarians , and Foe – On Representation will prove to be essential reading to those interested in Coetzee studies, the literary terrain of Deleuze’s philosophy, and those engaging with contemporary debates in postcolonial literature and theory.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- دولوز، جيل --- Deleuze, Gilles --- Coetzee, John M., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Delezi, Jier, --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл,

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This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical terrain of Couto's literary thought.

Couto, Mia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- קואוטו, מיה, --- Leite Couto, António Emílio, --- Couto, António Emílio Leite, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century . --- English studies. --- Lusophone writers. --- Mia Couto. --- Mozambican literature. --- Portugese language. --- Portugese literature. --- essays. --- fiction. --- high literature. --- history. --- journalism. --- literary studies. --- short stories.

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Considered one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers, the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright and essayist Dambudzo Marechera is read today as a significant voice in contemporary world literature. Marechera wrote ceaselessly against the status quo, against unqualified ideas, against expectation. He was an intellectual outsider who found comfort only in the company of other free-thinking writers - Shelley, Bakhtin, Apuleius, Fanon, Dostoyevsky, Tutuola. It is this universe of literary thought that one can see written into the fiction of Marechera that this collection of essays sets out to interrogate. In this important and timely contribution to African literary studies, Grant Hamilton has gathered together essays of world-renowned, established, and young academics from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera's prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera's work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of 'On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject' (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, 'Deleuze and African Literature'.

Zimbabwean literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Marechera, Dambudzo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Anarchism in literature. --- English literature --- Zimbabwean literature --- African Literature. --- Anarchism. --- Dambudzo Marechera. --- Free-thinking Writers. --- Literary Genius. --- Literary Thought. --- Philosophy.