Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Part II Mumbai
- Chapter 3 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny
- Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
- Part III New York
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 3 - Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny
from Part II - Mumbai
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Part II Mumbai
- Chapter 3 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny
- Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
- Part III New York
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
An examination of the precarity and poverty of dispossessed lives in India, see through narrative non-fiction by Katherine Boo and Sonia Faleiro and with reference to Hollywood and Bollywood cinema.
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- Unseen CityThe Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, pp. 99 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021