Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

Power Play of Empire

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Ben Grant

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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy and power in the space of Empire. This original study sheds new light on the mechanisms of imperial appropriation and pays particular attention to Burton’s relationship with his alter ego, Abdullah, the name by which he famously travelled to Mecca and Medina disguised as a Muslim pilgrim. In this context, Grant also provides insightful readings of a number of Burton’s contemporaries, such as Müller, du Chaillu, Darwin and Huxley, and engages with postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory in order to highlight the problematic relationship between the individual and imperialism, and to encourage readers to think about what it means to read colonial history and imperial narrative today.

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University of Kent, UK

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October 1st, 2008

Author

Ben Grant

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

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7 Halftones, black and white

Pages

222

Series

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780415450867

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2629225

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