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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: May, Brian, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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