Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-Readings

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor in the Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University, India. He was a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Introduction: Texts, Counter-Texts and Subversive Reading Strategies 1. Hamlet, the Prince of Deconstruction: Ghostwriting the Spectrality of Justice and Karma 2. Deconstruction, the Jew of Philosophy: Paul Celan’s Poetology and the Dispersal of Logos 3. Postcolonial Biopower: Politics of the Nation-ed and Dismemberment of the Other 4. Hangman’s Metaphysics and Penology-to-come: Provincializing Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminar 5. Deconstruction as ‘Hospitality to the Other’: A Derrida—Ambedkar Dialogue 6. Being With and Inter-Beings of Flat-Ontology: Poetry After the Anthropocene 7. Geology of Morals or Auto-Deconstruction: What Comes After the Anthropocene? 8. Art as Dissensual Sensorium: Subaltern Aesthetics and the Logic of Global Corporate Capital 9. Flawed Postcolonial Historiography?: Subaltern Theory After the Chibber-Chatterjee Debate 10. Critical Amnesia and the Colonizing Semiotic Capital: Can Popular Culture Speak?