Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus

Author:   Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   276
Publication Date:   16 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438477695


ISBN 10:   1438477694
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   16 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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This book not only covers well the theoretical range of postcolonial and psychoanalytic arguments and debates, but successfully integrates theory and contemporary literature/popular culture-no small feat! This is a highly compelling and original book. - Ilan Kapoor, author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity


"""…accessible and enlightening."" — CHOICE ""This book not only covers well the theoretical range of postcolonial and psychoanalytic arguments and debates, but successfully integrates theory and contemporary literature/popular culture—no small feat! This is a highly compelling and original book."" — Ilan Kapoor, author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity"


...accessible and enlightening. - CHOICE This book not only covers well the theoretical range of postcolonial and psychoanalytic arguments and debates, but successfully integrates theory and contemporary literature/popular culture-no small feat! This is a highly compelling and original book. - Ilan Kapoor, author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity


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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.

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