Extravagant Postcolonialism : Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988 /

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Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These "extravagant" postcolonial works focus less on collective social reali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: May, Brian, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Commonwealth fiction (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Memorials to modernity: postcolonial pilgrimage in V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie
  • Chinua Achebe: tradition and the talent for individuality
  • Modernism re(d- )dressed : interrogativity and individuality in Jean Rhys
  • Nadine Gordimer: the conservationist as conversationist
  • J.M. Coetzee: a question of the body, and an answer
  • Conclusion: postcolonial modernism, postcolonial humanism.

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