Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization

by Octave Mannoni

Book Overview

In his now classic volume Prospero and Caliban, Octave Mannoni gives his firsthand account of a 1948 revolt in Madagascar that led to one of the bloodiest episodes of colonial repression on the African continent. It is in Prospero and Caliban that Mannoni constructs the notion of the "dependency complex," for which his book has since been remembered and widely discussed in both psychoanalytical and anthropological writing. Prospero and Caliban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472064304
• ISBN13: 9780472064304
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"