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The postcolonial unconscious /

"The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lazarus, Neil
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2011001068-t.html
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2011001068-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the political unconscious of postcolonial studies
  • The politics of postcolonial modernism
  • Fredric Jameson on 'third-world literature': a defence
  • 'A figure glimpsed in a rear-view mirror': the question of representation in 'postcolonial' fiction
  • Frantz Fanon after the 'postcolonial prerogative'
  • The battle over Edward Said.