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Chatterji, Tuli.

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Un-fetishizing the fetish: A postcolonial approach.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Un-fetishizing the fetish: A postcolonial approach./
Author:	Chatterji, Tuli.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	190 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-08A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3662587
ISBN:	9781321673289

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

Un-fetishizing the fetish: A postcolonial approach. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 190 p.

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

Thesis (D.A.)--St. John's University (New York), 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

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.

ISBN: 9781321673289Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

Un-fetishizing the fetish: A postcolonial approach.
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