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Diana Caine - Mothering in the Colonies, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Mothering in the Colonies

Intimacy, Race, and Psychoanalysis

Av Diana Caine

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Mothering in the Colonies uses a psychoanalytic lens to consider the ubiquitous, but little acknowledged or spoken, relationship between settler colonial children and colonised, indentured, or slave-descended women and the way in which it inaugurated racial identity.Diana Caine explores this relationship through seven images depicting children and caregivers in different contexts including Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia, and South Africa. With reference to Freud and Lacan, Caine considers how this relationship at the heart of coloniality was impelled by socio-political and economic demands that collided with overt and covert interdictions against inter-racial intimacy.Mothering in the Colonies will be of interest to psychoanalysts and historians of psychoanalysis and to scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, race, imperial and colonial history, and the history and politics of motherhood. It will also interest a more general readership.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-07
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 118
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781032966687
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Diana Caine was born in South Africa, came of age in Australia and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice based in London, UK. She was formerly consultant clinical neuropsychologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.

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'Mothering in the Colonies: Intimacy, Race, and Psychoanalysis is a powerful new analysis of domestic servitude, race, and love in apartheid South Africa and elsewhere. Caine has produced a path-breaking, beautifully written, transdisciplinary history and theory. This brilliant and important text carves out new lines of research that stretch across transcontinental colonial history, histories of race, and psychoanalytic and psychosocial theory.'Yasmeen Narayan, Postcolonial and Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK'Diana Caine’s Mothering in the Colonies breaks the colonial frame making appear for the reader the erased figures of the Black women who cared for White children. Resonating with Rita Segato’s important work Black Oedipus, her book takes us through several sites – from Brazil, to Australia, South Africa, India, and Mexico – where the colonial "secret" of who cares for the children is at the heart of settler domestic life. Attentive to the politics of representation, Caine starts from striking images where the hidden racialised matrix of mothering resurfaces. The book includes a stirring recounting of love and loss: the author’s grappling with her own "Black mother". Written with subtlety, rigour, care and brilliant psychoanalytic insight, this book is an extraordinary gift to readers.'Raluca Soreanu, Psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK'A critique of the "unitary figure of the mother" enshrined in psychoanalysis and in settler colonialism, Diana Caine’s Mothering in the Colonies is itself a singular achievement. Like no other theorist I can think of, Caine combines rigour with vulnerability, insight with openness. Diana Caine has written an unflinching, unsentimental, important, and inspiring book.'Ramsey McGlazer, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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