1st Edition
Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton Power Play of Empire
By Ben Grant
Copyright 2009
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy... Read more
List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. No Doubt We’re Underway: With Our Man in Scinde, and Elsewhere. 2. Translating / ‘The’ Kama Sutra. 3. En-crypt-ing: Burton / Abdullah. 4. Playing With Words: The Negro Question, from ‘Race’ to ‘Geographical Morality’. 5. Outside the City Walls: Gorillas and Cannibals. 6. Ending Up – Lost in the Nights. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Ben Grant completed his PhD in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent, where he now teaches. He has published articles in Journal of European Studies and Third World Quarterly.
"Ben Grant makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on Burton with this book." -Victorian Studies (52:1)
