Basu Thakur Postcolonial Lack

Identity, Culture, Surplus
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7771-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basu Thakur, Gautam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
postscript

1. The Subaltern Act of Freedom

2. Postcolonial. Animal. Limit.

3. Hysterization of Postcolonial Studies; or, Beyond Cross-Cultural Communication

4. Fictions of Katherine Boo's Creative Non-Fiction, or, The Unbearable Alterity of the Other

5. Political Correctness Is Phallic: Idaho Politics, Black Panther, and Gran Torino

Conclusion: Particular Universal

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gautam Basu Thakur is Associate Professor of English at Boise State University. He is the author of Postcolonial Theory and Avatar and coeditor (with Jonathan Michael Dickstein) of Lacan and the Nonhuman.