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- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies
- Cognitive Historicism: Intuition in Early Modern Thought
- The Biology of Failure, the Forms of Rage, and the Equity of Revenge
- Literary Neuroscience and History of Mind: An Interdisciplinary fMRI Study of Attention and Jane Austen
- Toward a Narratology of Cognitive Flavor
- How do we read what isn’t there to be Read?: Shadow Stories and Permanent Gaps
- Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison’s “Recitatif”: From Parallel Play to Productive Collaboration
- “Listen to the Stories!”: Narrative, Cognition, and Country-and-Western Music
- Blending in Cartoons: The Production of Comedy
- From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective
- Sex on the Mind: Queer Theory Meets Cognitive Theory
- Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections
- Theorizing Imagery, Aesthetics, and Doubly Directed States
- What Literature Teaches us about Emotion: Synthesizing Affective Science and Literary Study
- Facing Others: Close-Ups of Faces in Narrative Film and in The Silence of the Lambs
- Theater and the Emotions
- The Psychology of Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Cognitive Approaches to Identity and Empathy
- Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction
- Reading and Bargaining
- What Some Autistics Can Teach us about Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach
- On the Repulsive Rapist and the Difference between Morality in Fiction and Real Life
- Empathic Sadism: How Readers Get Implicated
- The New Unconscious: A Literary Guided Tour
- Filmmakers as Folk Psychologists: How Filmmakers Exploit Cognitive Biases as an Aspect of Cinematic Narration, Characterization, and Spectatorship
- The Value of Qualitative Research for Cognitive Literary Studies
- Transport: Challenges to the Metaphor
- Fluctuations in Literary Reading: The Neglected Dimension of Time
- Mental Calisthenics and Self-Reflexive Fiction
- Rethinking the Reality Effect: Detail and the Novel
- Time as Space in the Structure of (Literary) Experience: The Prelude
- Thick Context: Novelty in Cognition and Literature
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter begins by outlining Frederick Aldama’s cognitive and Marxist critique of mainstream postcolonial theory. From here, it turns to a consideration of identity, comparing and contrasting Patrick Hogan’s cognitive and social psychological analyses with the psychoanalytic approaches of Homi Bhabha and Judith Butler. It goes on to consider colonialism and racism, exploring cognitive modeling or conceptual metaphor as a way of expanding and systematizing some insights of the postcolonial theorist, Ashis Nandy. The chapter concludes with an examination of Suzanne Keen’s ideas on empathy in relation to colonialism. The theoretical analyses are illustrated by brief applications to a story by Rabindranath Tagore, a film by Mani Ratnam, and a novel by Kamala Markandaya.
Keywords: postcolonial theory, cognitive science, identity, empathy, Frederick Aldama, Suzanne Keen, conceptual metaphor, Rabindranath Tagore, Mani Ratnam, Kamala Markandaya
Department of English University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies
- Cognitive Historicism: Intuition in Early Modern Thought
- The Biology of Failure, the Forms of Rage, and the Equity of Revenge
- Literary Neuroscience and History of Mind: An Interdisciplinary fMRI Study of Attention and Jane Austen
- Toward a Narratology of Cognitive Flavor
- How do we read what isn’t there to be Read?: Shadow Stories and Permanent Gaps
- Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison’s “Recitatif”: From Parallel Play to Productive Collaboration
- “Listen to the Stories!”: Narrative, Cognition, and Country-and-Western Music
- Blending in Cartoons: The Production of Comedy
- From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective
- Sex on the Mind: Queer Theory Meets Cognitive Theory
- Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections
- Theorizing Imagery, Aesthetics, and Doubly Directed States
- What Literature Teaches us about Emotion: Synthesizing Affective Science and Literary Study
- Facing Others: Close-Ups of Faces in Narrative Film and in The Silence of the Lambs
- Theater and the Emotions
- The Psychology of Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Cognitive Approaches to Identity and Empathy
- Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction
- Reading and Bargaining
- What Some Autistics Can Teach us about Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach
- On the Repulsive Rapist and the Difference between Morality in Fiction and Real Life
- Empathic Sadism: How Readers Get Implicated
- The New Unconscious: A Literary Guided Tour
- Filmmakers as Folk Psychologists: How Filmmakers Exploit Cognitive Biases as an Aspect of Cinematic Narration, Characterization, and Spectatorship
- The Value of Qualitative Research for Cognitive Literary Studies
- Transport: Challenges to the Metaphor
- Fluctuations in Literary Reading: The Neglected Dimension of Time
- Mental Calisthenics and Self-Reflexive Fiction
- Rethinking the Reality Effect: Detail and the Novel
- Time as Space in the Structure of (Literary) Experience: The Prelude
- Thick Context: Novelty in Cognition and Literature
- Index
