Nafssiya, or Edward Said's affective phenomenology of racism /

This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said's analysis of the affective dimensions of colonial and imperial racism. Reflecting on what he called his "colonial education," Said rendered his Palestinian/Arab background and experience o...

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Main Author: Saadi Nikro, Norman (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Strange Disjunction
  • Chapter 2. Inventorying the Self: Nafssiya, Elaboration, Recursive Humanism
  • Chapter 3. Archival Repositories, Embodied Repertoires, Marxism
  • Chapter 4. Beginnings: Said's Interventionist Scholarship
  • Chapter 5. Giving an Account of Himself
  • Chapter 6. Towards a Phenomenology of Racism.