- Title
- A critical psychology of the postcolonial: the mind of apartheid. A book review
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142351
- Identifier
- vital:38072
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2012.730818
- Description
- This book provides a careful and detailed defence of the idea that the (post)colonial condition, and particularly the role that race has played in the (post)colony, cannot properly be understood without the theorisation of the ‘psychopolitical’. By the ‘psychopolitical’, Hook refers to ‘a reciprocal form of critique in which we not only place the psychological within the register of the political, but, perhaps more challengingly, in which the political is also – although strategically – approached through the register of the psychological’ (p. 40). In order to do this, Hook engages with and develops upon the insights of some key postcolonial thinkers, most notably Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha. Hook argues convincingly that concepts and approaches from psychoanalysis are helpful in properly understanding the postcolonial condition and, particularly, in getting to grips with the malleability and persistence of racism.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Identities
- Relation
- Sally Matthews (2012) A critical psychology of the postcolonial: the mind of apartheid, African Identities, 10:4, 472-475, DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2012.730818
- Relation
- African Identities volume 10 number 4 472 475 December 2012 1472-5851
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