The postcolonial unconscious
By: Neil Lazarus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780521186261; 9781107006560
Subjects: Literatures; Theory; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism and the arts; History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: "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. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, Southeast and East Asia, to reconsider them from a postcolonial perspective. Alongside this, he offers bold new readings of some of the most influential figures in the field: Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon. A tour de force of postcolonial studies, this book will set the agenda for the future, probing how the field has come to develop in the directions it has and why and how it can grow further"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the political unconscious of postcolonial studies; title: The politics of postcolonial modernism; title: Fredric Jameson on 'third-world literature': a defence; title: 'A figure glimpsed in a rear-view mirror': the question of representation in 'postcolonial' fiction; title: Frantz Fanon after the 'postcolonial prerogative'; title: The battle over Edward Said.