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 of racism an ena...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikro, Norman Saadi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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