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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU156: DR GAUTAM BASU THAKUR ON POSTCOLONIAL LACK, IDENTITY, CULTURE, SURPLUS
Description: Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur to the podcast!
Gautam Basu Thakur is a critical theorist working in the fields of comparative cultural studies; postcoloniality and globalization studies; British Literature of the Empire; race and sexuality studies; and world cinema. More specifically, he is interested in theoretical psychoanalysis and its interventions in postcolonial studies; the British Empire and its afterlife in global/transnational literary and (new) media cultures; film; and comparative cultural politics.
His books include:
1) Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/postcolonial-theory-and-avatar-9781628925654/
2) Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (2020) http://www.sunypress.edu/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=6858&SEName...