Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire

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InPostcolonial Biology, Deepika Bahri investigates how minds and bodies have been shaped by colonial contact, to create deeply embedded hierarchies among the colonized. Moving beyond "North/South" thinking, Bahri reframes the questions of postcolonial bodies to address all societies, whether developed or developing, and brings an important new focus to the field of postcolonial studies.

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"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

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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.