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  • Postcolonial Lack

    Identity, Culture, Surplus

    by Gautam Basu Thakur ...
    Series series SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
    Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Theory and Avatar

    by Gautam Basu Thakur ...
    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial Theory and Avatar offers a concise introduction to postcolonial theory in jargon-free ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Wool Handbook

    Morphology, Structure, Properties, Processing, and Applications

    Edited by Seiko Jose, Sabu Thomas, Gautam Basu ...
    Series series The Textile Institute Book Series
    The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Applications explores the fundamental aspects of wool fibers as well as traditional and novel applications of wool in areas including polymer composites and technical textiles. Apart from textiles and garments, wool has long been used for various diversified applications due to its unique material properties. Wool is inherently fire resistant, ... Read more

    $302.39 CAD

  • Lacan and the Nonhuman

    Edited by Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Michael Dickstein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic – the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject; explore implications of ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII

    Transference

    Edited by Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Dickstein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book provides 18 lively commentaries on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61) that explore its theoretical and philosophical consequences in the clinic, the classroom, and society. Including contributions from clinicians as well as scholars working in philosophy, literature, and culture studies, the commentaries presented here represent a wide-range of disciplinary perspectives on the ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    A 19th century literary masterpiece, which uses Persian religious leader Zarathustra to pronounce the author’s views, including the introduction of the controversial Doctrine of the Obermensch, or “superman”, later perverted by Nazi propagandists. ... Read more

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    The Easter Rising 1916

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  • The Colonial Present

    The Role of Ignorance and the Rule of Law

    by Kerry Coast ...
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    Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

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    A Graphic Guide

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    A Graphic Guide

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