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Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

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Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1349356530
ISBN13: 9781349356539
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought.

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