Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire
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Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire
By (Author) Deepika Bahri
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
2nd January 2018
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: postcolonial literature
820.99171241
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Hardback
224
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms: as capable of transformation not only in psyche a
Reviews
"For over a decade now I have turned to Deepika Bahri's work in the confident expectation that it will surprise, instruct, and persuade. Postcolonial Biology does just that. It is interdisciplinary in the most robust sense as Bahri invites us to think 'postcolonial biology' through the lenses provided by thinkers and by modes of enquiry that are not often aggregated together. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read, it promises to unsettle the terrain of postcolonial theory and literary criticism."Parama Roy, University of California, Davis
"Bahri intends this book to bring biologyparticularly the corporealinto postcolonial discourse. She argues that to do so does not reinforce the body-mind divide; rather, it extends the notion of hybridity beyond knowledge systems to include bodily aesthetics and comportment."CHOICE
Author Bio
Deepika Bahri is associate professor of English and core faculty member in comparative literature at Emory University. She is author of Native Intelligence (Minnesota, 2003) and coeditor of Between the Lines and The Realms of Rhetoric.
