White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / Gail Ching-Liang Low.

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Low, Gail Ching-Liang, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203359607
9780203359600
0415081475
9780415081474
0415081483
9780415081481
1134892470
9781134892471
1280020946
9781280020940

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: White skins/Black masks.DDC classification:

823/.809355 22

LOC classification:

PR868.C6 L69 1996eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Body/Border Lines -- 2. Dominion of Sons -- 3. Mimesis of Savagery -- 4. Colonial Uncanny -- 5. City of Dreadful Night -- 6. Colonial Mirror -- 7. Loafers and Story-Tellers.

Summary: In this exciting re-reading of the classic work of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low examines the representational dynamics of colonizer versus colonized. Exploring the interface between the native 'other' as a reflection and as a point of address, the author asserts that this 'other' is a mirror reflecting the image of the colonizer - a 'cultural cross-dressing'. Employing psychoanalysis, anthropology and postcolonial theory, Low analyzes the way in which fantasy and fabulation are caught up in networks of desire and power. White Skins/Black Masks is a fascinating entry into the current debate of post-colonial theory.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index.

In this exciting re-reading of the classic work of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low examines the representational dynamics of colonizer versus colonized. Exploring the interface between the native 'other' as a reflection and as a point of address, the author asserts that this 'other' is a mirror reflecting the image of the colonizer - a 'cultural cross-dressing'. Employing psychoanalysis, anthropology and postcolonial theory, Low analyzes the way in which fantasy and fabulation are caught up in networks of desire and power. White Skins/Black Masks is a fascinating entry into the current debate of post-colonial theory.