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States of Fantasy (Paperback, New Ed)
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States of Fantasy (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
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States of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose's much-praised contribution to
the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing
for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English', and for the
importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of our literary
and historical lives, Rose looks at Israel/Palestine and South
Africa, and their place in the English literary and cultural
imagination. Jacqueline Rose's fundamental question is the place of
fantasy in public and private identities, and in these pages she
pushes her investigation further into what might at first glance
seem unlikely places. In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed
their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its
first non-racial democratic elections. States of Fantasy
persuasively puts the case that nowhere demonstrates more clearly
than these two arenas of historic conflict the need for a
psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. In
so doing, this book shows how the place of England and its writing
in those histories emphasize the unbreakable line that runs between
literature and politics. Stretching the limits of the `canon'
debate, the author offers the strongest rebuttal to critics who try
to sever the links between the study of literature and culture and
the making and unmaking of the modern world. The central part of
this wide-ranging and lively study was originally delivered as the
1994 Clarendon Lectures in Oxford.
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