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Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature) by Gautam Basu Thakur; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference. Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, exclusion, and cultural appropriation. Seeking to resolve the mutual suspicion between the disciplines, Gautam Basu Thakur draws out the connections existing between Lacan’s teachings on subjectivity and otherness and writings of postcolonial and decolonial theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, Frantz Fanon, and Homi Bhabha. By developing new readings of the marginalized other as radical impasse and pushing the envelope on neoliberal identity politics, the book moves postcolonial studies away from the perennial topic of identity and difference and into examining the form and function of the other as excess―surplus and/or lack―in colonial and postcolonial literature, film, and social discourse. Looking at writings by Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Leila Aboulela, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Katherine Boo,

Who reads Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)?

Author

Gautam Basu Thakur;

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438477695

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Philosophy, History