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Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Maria-Ana Tupan

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Relocating self-construction to social and political psychology, these essays explore the postcolonial condition. This is the catalyst for inquiries into collective traumas, new narratives, and the double consciousness of writers living at home and as migrants.

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Renė Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collection of…

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Renė Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collection of essays contributed by academics from India, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina removes self-construction from the field of anthropology, relocating the process within the wake of social and political psychology. The postcolonial condition is the catalyst of inquiries into collective traumas in the former colonies, in parallel with attempts at writing new narratives in the space left blank by metropolitan representations. Transnational space is a palimpsest of conflicting discourses, often revealing a double consciousness in writers living in the country of origin, as well as in migrants.
A broader and more complex approach to the postcolonial condition than the reductive and politicized one-factor analysis has been attempted, benefiting from recent theoretical developments (trauma studies, identity studies, studies of the affect, political psychology, and others).

Prof. Dr. habil. Maria-Ana Tupan is currently appointed to the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, Romania. From 1991 to 2014 she taught courses on the history of British literature and on applied literary theory at Bucharest University, Romania. She is a Fulbright Visiting Professor, affiliated with Penn State University, USA (1994-5). She is the author of 17 books, book chapters and articles published in Romania, the UK, Germany, India, Australia and the USA. Relevant titles include: Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), The Key to Change. Interdisciplinary Essays in Cultural History (2017), The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), Realismul magic (2013), Relativism/ Relativity: The History of a Modern Concept (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), A Survey Course in British Literature, 2 vols (2004).

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