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Locating postcolonial narrative genres /
This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial Narrative Aesthetics; Part I Pre- and Post-colonial Aesthetic Templates; 1 Love, Marriage, and Realism: The Novel in Pre- and Post-colonial India; 2 Post-colonial Utopianism: The Utility of Hope; 3 ". . . At the Edge of Writing and Speech": Shifting Genre, Relocating the Aesthetic; Part II Resistant and Subversive Genres; 4 "Writing the Poetry of Troy": Mahmoud Darwish and the Lyrical Epic as Postcolonial Resistance Genre.
- 5 Genre: Fidelity and Transgression in the Post-colonial African Novel6 "De-Formed Narrators": Postcolonial Genre and Peripheral Modernity in Mabanckou and Pepetela; 7 V.S. Naipaul's Heterobiographical Fictions or Postcolonial Melancholia Reinterpreted; Part III Longue Durée Perspectives and Orature; 8 Folktales In(to) Postcolonial Narratives and Aesthetics; 9 A House, a Museum, and a Legend: Bait Al-Kretliya; 10 ... What Will Count as the World: Indian Short Story Cycles and the Question of Genre; Part IV Emerging Narrative Genres.
- 11 Saying Sorry: The Politics of Apology and Reconciliation in Recent Australian Fiction12 Remapping Territories of Fiction in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love; 13 Reading Short Stories as a Postcolonialist: Jhumpa Lahiri's "This Blessed House"; 14 Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero; Contributors; Index.