Who Will Become a Theoretician?
Who Will Become a Theoretician?
This chapter advocates a critical excessiveness regarding the colony—the passing of the disciplines through a sieve and to move beyond their defining protocols. It claims the term “indiscipline” to mark the epistemic negativity that results from its methodical formation. Indiscipline is a shareable exigency—a matter of pursuing the critique of the colony all the way into the defection of the postcolonial. From there, the chapter returns to two other discourses that make use of history and literature and can serve as alternative models of literary criticism. From there, the chapter extols the reader to speak anew about the underlying coerciveness of colonialism, in order to move from and beyond it.
Keywords: critical theory, critical excessiveness, indiscipline, post-colonialism, literary criticism
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