Postcolonial Disorders

Postcolonial Disorders
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : 9780520252240
ISBN-13 : 0520252241
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Disorders by : Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Download or read book Postcolonial Disorders written by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.


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