Self-construal in postcolonial literature /

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from René 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, relocati...

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Other Authors: Tupan, Maria-Ana (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Self-construal : a Travelling Concept / Maria-Ana Tupan
  • "Why Me" Paradox Explored: Rushdie's Psychoanalysis / Abhijeet Ghosh
  • Cultural Hybridity: An Examination of Identity in Salman Rushdie's East, West / Corina Mitrulescu
  • Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection: Disclosing Rohner's Subtheories in Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith / B. Parvathavardhini
  • A Comparative Study of the Portrayal of Travel, Movement, and Time in Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry / Priyanka Yadav
  • Identity versus Identity Crisis: An Analysis of Erikson's Epigenetic Principle in Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune / P. Sarojini
  • The House/Home Troping in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men, and Magic Seeds / Bhavani Sushma Garlapati
  • Liminal Transitions in Semezdin Mehmedinović's Transnational Novel, My Heart / Ismet Dilaver.