Reinventing Community
Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French

Jane Hiddleston

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Legenda

4 February 2005  •  248pp

ISBN: 1-904713-02-5 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

ISBN: 978-1-351195-75-1 (Taylor & Francis ebook)

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During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks. Hiddleston challenges this trend towards singularity, bringing together theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy to bear on literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing.

Jane Hiddleston is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

Reviews:

  • ‘This is a lucid, cogently-argued work that is both extensive and focused. As such it represents an important contribution to the urgent discussion of community and the fraught relationship between "singular-plural" beings and the collectivities they form.’ — Nicole Simek, French Review 80.3, 2007, 670-71

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Hiddleston, Jane, Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French (Legenda, 2005)

First footnote reference: 35 Jane Hiddleston, Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French (Legenda, 2005), p. 21.

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