Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)

Gebundenes Buch

Unseen City

The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor

Beschreibung

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, homelessness, displacement, or racism. It advocates the value of an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor in not only addressing mental health needs but building capacity.

Autor

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of two monographs and the editor of three essay collections. What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014) won the British Academy Prize for English Literature. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the British Academy, AHRC, and Wellcome Trust.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517581
• ISBN-10: 1316517586
• Artikelnr.: 62428833