Postcolonial studies and the literary [electronic resource] : theory, interpretation and the novel / Eli Park Sorensen
- Author
- Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-
- Published
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 189 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Contents
- The melancholia of postcolonial studies -- Returning to the literary -- Utopian-interpretive trajectories -- Form and temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala -- Arcades of foreignness : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Realism in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.
- Summary
- "Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalisation in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text"--
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- ISBN
- 9780230252622
0230252621 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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