Book Review

Ashmita Khasnabish wrote a book: Jouissance as Ananda. I met her in Liverpool at the Women and the Divine conference last year. I've promised her a book review. There's much good about this book: exploring Irigaray and Aurobindo, Eastern and Western literature, how they complete each other. It's a very generous book. And it's the generosity I most want to emphasize. Which, in a review of a critical book, can be a trick. I'm working on it. In meantime, my review boils down to this: read it, it's a work in Post-colonial studies that has no sense of complaint or guilt-assuagement, and that's a great thing.