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dc.contributor.authorPRAVINCHANDRA, S
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-08T14:23:20Z
dc.date.available2016-09-08T14:23:20Z
dc.date.issued2016-09
dc.date.submitted2016-04-13T15:38:06.732Z
dc.identifier.citationPravinchandra, Shital, "One Species, Same Difference?: Postcolonial Critique And The Concept Of Life", New Literary History, 47 (2016), 27-48 <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/626112/summary> [accessed 8 September 2016]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1080-661X
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15065
dc.description.abstractThis article examines a recent challenge to postcolonial studies: the emergence of species thinking. Species thinking calls for a shift away from postcolonial studies and its characteristic emphasis on racial, ethnic and cultural difference in favour of a new and fully inclusive concept of human collectivity that is attentive to our basic sameness and our common vulnerability to the forces that threaten our future on this planet. I suggest that the move to species thinking is too hasty, and I argue that its recourse to the rhetoric of life preservation warrants much deeper scrutiny. As I demonstrate, to uncritically portray life and its prolongment as the goal to which we all aspire is to ultimately profile new patterns of neocolonial domination where exploitation is legitimized not in the name of “progress” and the civilizing mission but in the name of longevity and the reproduction of the species.en_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
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dc.rightsOriginal publication is available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/626112
dc.titleOne Species, Same Difference? Postcolonial Critique and the Concept of Lifeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2016 New Literary History, The University of Virginia
dc.relation.isPartOfNew Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation
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