White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism

Author(s)

    • Low, Gail Ching-Liang

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White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism

Gail Ching-Liang Low

Routledge, 1996

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 277-290

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Part I 1 BODY/BORDER LINES 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY TRANSITIONS Part II 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS, CONCLUSION

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