Postcolonial Lack - Identity, Culture, Surplus

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gautam Basu Thakur, Basu Thakur Gautam
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2021
• EAN: 9781438477701
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7770-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literature: history & criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literature: history and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Film history, theory or criticism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis