Beschreibung:
A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial explores the psychological dimension of postcolonial thought by treating the work of a variety of anti-colonial authors as seriouspsychological contributions to the theorization of racism and oppression.
Introduction. Why a Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial? The Postcolonial, the Psychopolitical, Black Consciousness and Vernacular Psychology. Abjection as a Political Factor: Racism and the 'Extra-Discursive.' Postcolonial Psychoanalysis: Fanon, Desire, Fantasy and Libidinal Economy. The Stereotype, Colonial Discourse, Fetishism, Racism. The 'Real' of Racializing Embodiment. Retrieving Biko: A Black Consciousness Critique of Post-Apartheid Whiteness.