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Dark Continents : Psychoanalysis and Colonialism /

Argues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcolonial, feminist theory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khanna, Ranjana, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Genealogies
  • Psychoanalysis and archaeology
  • Freud in the sacred grove
  • Colonial rescriptings
  • War, decolonization, psychoanalysis
  • Colonial melancholy
  • Haunting and the future
  • The ethical ambiguities of transnational feminism
  • Hamlet in the colonial archive.