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Un-fetishizing the fetish : = A postcolonial approach.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Un-fetishizing the fetish :/
Reminder of title:	A postcolonial approach.
Author:	Chatterji, Tuli.
Description:	1 online resource (190 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-08A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781321673289

Un-fetishizing the fetish : = A postcolonial approach.
Chatterji, Tuli.

Un-fetishizing the fetish :A postcolonial approach. - 1 online resource (190 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

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My dissertation explores the transformation of fetishes as represented in literature over a period of three centuries. Most discussions of fetishism either border around fashion and sexuality or explore the concept from a strongly theoretical Marxist or Freudian perspective. In my dissertation I do not focus on popular fetish symbols like leather catsuits, kinky boots, or SM yet without rejecting the significance of these forms of fetishes, I address the genealogies of fetishism to throw light on fetishes as forms, thoughts, and effects of specific social, racial, and sexual practices. Through a critical analysis of literary texts--Daniel Defoe's Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909), Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959), and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night (1996)---I interrogate popular theories of commodity fetishism and sexual fetishism to show how colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial literatures have diversely engaged in the re-production and de-centering of traditional approaches towards fetishism. By attending to the roles of race, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping the discourse of fetishism, I offer alternative structures and epistemologies that throw light on the conflicts and dissonances in the field and create new ways of understanding fetishes. Dividing the dissertation into three chronological periods---Fetish in Colonial Discourse, Fetish in Anti-colonial Discourse, and Fetish in Postcolonial Discourse---I liberate the discourse of fetishism from the confines of phallic reductionism and show how an intervention of race, class, and gender complicate the dominant interpretations of fetishism.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781321673289Subjects--Topical Terms:

835159
Comparative literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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