Chapter 9 Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought in Postcolonial Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Deleuze and the Postcolonial: Conversations, Negotiations, Mediations 1
5. Chapter 1 Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern 20
6. Chapter 2 Postcolonial Theory and the Geographical Materialism of Desire 41
7. Chapter 3 Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze’s Method 62
8. Chapter 4 Affective Assemblages: Ethics beyond Enjoyment 78
9. Chapter 5 The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant and the Problem of the Political 103
10. Chapter 6 Postcolonial Haecceities 119
11. Chapter 7 ‘Another Perspective on the World’: Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle’s L’Inde fantôme 163
12. Chapter 8 Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians 183
13. Chapter 9 Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought in Postcolonial Cinema 201
14. Chapter 10 The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 220
15. Chapter 11 Virtually Postcolonial? 251
16. Chapter 12 In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement and Canadian Postcolonialism 272
17. Notes on Contributors 297
18. Index 301