Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
PART 1. Psychoanalysis, Psychopathology and the aesthetics of malady
Chapter 1. Buddha on Freud’s Desk: The East Sets Freud on a Post-Therapeutic Journey
Debashis Bandyopadhyay (Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India)
Chapter 2. The Other Father: Oedipus, anti-Oedipus and the an-Oedipal
Anup Dhar (School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi)
Chapter 3. Deeper Maladies on Harrison Road’: The Aesthetics of Illness in Baudelaire and Jibanananda Das’ Late Oeuvre
Sambuddha Ghosh (Department of English, Krishnagar Government College, Krishnagar, Nadia, West Bengal)
PART 2. Literature, Medicine, and Healthcare in Colonial India
Chapter 4. Indian Perspectives of Medicine and the Colonial era
Chaitali Maitra (Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Chapter 5. Diseases and Healthcare in Kipling’s Short Stories
Abidita Goswami (Department of English, Budge Budge College, Kolkata, West Bengal)
Chapter 6. Breaking Free of the Dialectic: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome as a Critique of Modernity vis-à -vis Colonial Medical Science
Pabitra Kumar Rana (Department Of English, Govt. General Degree College, Dantan -II, Midnapore, West Bengal)
Chapter 7. Tropical Diseases and Helpless Colonial Responses: Medical Humanism in Greene’s Journey without Maps and Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
Ujjwal Kr. Panda (Dept. of English, Govt. General Degree College, Dantan-II, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal)
PART 3. Historical case-studies
Chapter 8. The Curious Discourse of Mesmerism in Colonial Bengal – James Esdaile: a Case-Study
Shreya Chakravorty (Department of English, Budge Budge College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Chapter 9. King’s Disease: Tuberculosis in Colonial Calcutta (1900-1947)
Suvankar Dey (Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal)
PART 4. Studies in Popular Fiction: Sensational Psychiatry
Chapter 10. ‘Wilde Desire’ across Cultures: Dracula and its Bengali Adaptations
Prodosh Bhattacharya and Abhirup Mascharak (Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal)
Chapter 11. The Centre and Its Mirror: Case Studies of Fourth World Poisons as A Motif in Colonial Bengal’s Detective Fiction
Piali Mondal (Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
PART 5. Medicine, Gender and Colonial Modernity
Chapter 12. Women of Steel Amidst Tropical Maladies
Suchismita Neogi (Department of English, Budge Budge College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Chapter 13. The Caged Phoenix? Politics of Affection and Identity for Women Medics in Colonial Bengal
Dhritiman Chakraborty (Department of English, Raigunj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India)
Chapter 14. ‘Lady Doctors’ in Colonial Bengal: Writing, Memory, History
Pritha Kundu (Department of English, Chandrakona Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal)
Contributors
Index
The book is chiefly written for researchers, academicians, and professors in the field of literature, medicine, and psychoanalysis in the imperial context. Any cultural studies group may find it interesting. But we are at present unable to give particular names of such institutions. You may try to contact any department of humanities and cultural studies of any college/ university.
Colonial and postcolonial developments in medicine and psychiatry constitute an interesting debate for the present academia and healthcare management sectors. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 are important in this regard. For Gender Studies, which is now a field of global importance concerning women’s empowerment in society, one may find chapters 12, 13, 14 useful.