Includes bibliographical references (281-303) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the afterwardsness of history -- Desire, phantoms, and commodities: Maria Dermoût's colonial critique -- At home and not at home in empire: transnational phantasies of colonial modernity -- A neurotic family romance of modernity and the national form -- The end of the nationalist romance -- Trauma and its doubles in postcolonial masculinity -- Masculinist trauma and feminist melancholia -- Afterword: trauma, translation, and a critical path.
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