A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial The Mind of Apartheid

An oft-neglected element of postcolonial thought is the explicitly psychological dimension of many of its foundational texts. This unprecedented volume explores the relation between these two disciplines by treating the work of a variety of anti-colonial authors as serious psychological contribution...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hook, Derek
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Routledge 2012 Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group Psychology Press
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Apartheid Critical Psychology Ethnopsychology Postcolonialism Prejudice Psychoanalysis Social Constructionism Social psychology Sociology of Culture Post-imperial Melancholia Negro Myth Apartheid Archive Project Vernacular Psychology biko Biko's Black Consciousness Black Man's Place Racializing Embodiment Critical Social Psychology libidinal cation Goodman Gallery Latent Orientalism White Masks identifi Voortrekker Monument Pumla Gobodo Madikizela steve Critical Psychology Black Consciousness Steve Biko Libidinal Economy Tougher Bodies Colonial Discourse racism Postcolonial Theorist Homi Bhabha consciousness Jan Haaken black Remarkable Inability Colonial Racism economy discourse Fetish Object Bhabha's Account
ISBN:	9780415587570, 0415587573, 9780415587563, 0415587565
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Table of Contents:

Front Cover -- A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Why a psychology of the postcolonial? -- 1. The postcolonial, the psychopolitical, Black Consciousness and vernacular psychology -- 2. Abjection as a political factor: Racism and the 'extra-discursive' -- 3. Postcolonial psychoanalysis: Fanon, desire, fantasy and libidinal economy -- 4. The stereotype, colonial discourse, fetishism and racism -- 5. The 'real' of racializing embodiment -- References -- Index