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White Skins/Black Masks - Representation and Colonialism (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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White Skins/Black Masks - Representation and Colonialism (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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"White Skin/Black Masks" focuses on the fiction and travel writings
of Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. Close friends as well
as prominent figures of imperial and colonial myth-making, Haggard
and Kipling were praised for their alleged knowledge of and ability
to speak from within the "native" cultures of Africa and India.
Narrators and characters in their fiction attest to a persistent
fascination with the body-image of the "Other." Kipling's fiction
in particular deals with disguise and physical transformation
through the use of costume. This book addresses the psychic
processes of negation, projection and reappropriation in the
dynamics of pleasure/unpleasure and mastery/defense found in the
work of these two writers. It also seeks to provide a historical
context for understanding how these forces emerged from and were
played out in contemporary society.
The fascination with exotic cultures and the crossing of cultural
boundaries provides some of the most striking ways in which a
colonizing culture articulates its self-identity and authority.
"White Skin/Black Masks" employs the most recent thinking in
psychoanalysis, anthropology and colonial discourse theory to
analyze the manner in which fantasy and fabulation is always caught
up in networks of desire and power.
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