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Ranjana Khanna

Professor of English
English
Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
304GH Allen Bldg, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Book sections


Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”

Book section · January 1, 2024 This chapter on melancholy/melancholia addresses the use of these categories over the last 30 years in the analysis of cultural difference associated with race, gender, and sexuality. In particular, I will address the different trajectories that emerge in ... Full text Cite

The stranger at the gate: An interview

Book section · January 1, 2016 Cite

On the right to sleep, perchance to dream

Book section · January 1, 2014 This chapter is about insomnia in the work of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and its relationship to psychoanalysis. Levinas uses insomnia to discuss hospitality and refuge, and the chapter shows how the psychic location of space imagines refuge as death and ... Full text Cite

Rex, or the negation of wandering

Book section · November 21, 2013 Cite

Isaac Julien: Paradise Omeros

Book section · 2010 Cite

Psychoanalysis before 1966

Book section · 2010 Cite

Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie

Book section · 2008 Cite

Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice

Book section · March 2003 Cite

The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice

Book section · January 2001 Featured Publication Cite

The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography

Book section · December 1997 Featured Publication Cite

Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture

Book section · 1997 Featured Publication Cite