Description: Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"...accessible and enlightening." -- CHOICE
"This book not only covers well the theoretical range of postcolonial and psychoanalytic arguments and debates, but successfully integrates theory and contemporary literature/popular culture--no small feat! This is a highly compelling and original book." -- Ilan Kapoor, author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity