Reading The New Literatures In A Postcolonial Era

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916011
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the "new" Literatures in a Postcolonial Era written by Susheila Nasta and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the contribution of African, Caribbean, Asian and diaspora writers to 'English' literature. The 'new' literatures have most commonly been seen as a staging post en route to the current 'post-colonial' era. Yet these literatures and the diverse cultural histories they represent are older than such recent interpretations of them. This collection of essays investigates ways in which we can return to 'reading' these 'new' literatures without falling back on current critical assumptions.

Author : Baidik Bhattacharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429885482
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature written by Baidik Bhattacharya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields – postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the nineteenth-century ideal of world literature had always and already been embedded in colonial histories; and also because whatever promise that ideal held out has been exhausted by postcolonial Anglophone literature. Through fresh and incisive readings of the postcolonial canon and some of its most prominent authors like Rudyard Kipling, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the volume discusses how these Anglophone writings have used the banal and ordinary ideal of world literature to fashion out their own trajectories. Ambitious in scope, this book challenges many of the existing theoretical and literary frameworks and offers a radical reimagination of the fields. The volume, written in an accessible and lively prose, will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of literature, critical theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916011
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the "new" Literatures in a Postcolonial Era written by Susheila Nasta and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the contribution of African, Caribbean, Asian and diaspora writers to 'English' literature. The 'new' literatures have most commonly been seen as a staging post en route to the current 'post-colonial' era. Yet these literatures and the diverse cultural histories they represent are older than such recent interpretations of them. This collection of essays investigates ways in which we can return to 'reading' these 'new' literatures without falling back on current critical assumptions.

Author : L. Loh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137314613
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature written by L. Loh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.

Author : M. Krishnan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137378336
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Literature in English written by M. Krishnan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.

Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415351707
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Twentieth-century Literature Reader written by Suman Gupta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.

Author : Lucienne Loh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331877
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Literature and Challenges for the New Millennium written by Lucienne Loh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoretical underpinnings and political motivations of postcolonial studies in the new millennium. Colonial legacies, especially in terms of structuring exploitative capitalist relations between countries and regions are shown to persist in postcolonial nations in the form of ‘global civil wars’ and systemic environmental waste. Chinese authoritarianism and the Indian picturesque represent less familiar forms of neo-colonialism. These essays not only engage with established writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai; they also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Author : Sherry Simon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776605240
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Terms written by Sherry Simon and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and politics have had on the role of translation in the evolution of literary and cultural relations is investigated in fascinating detail. Published in English.

Author : Isabelle Hesse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474269346
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature written by Isabelle Hesse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature.

Author : Amy L. Friedman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498571972
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Satire written by Amy L. Friedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction in both the cutting-edge territory of political resistance writing and the ancient tradition of Menippean satire. Postcolonial Satire aims to disrupt the relationship between postcolonial literature and magic realism, by discussing the work of writers such as G. V. Desani, Aubrey Menen, Salman Rushdie, and Irwin Allan Sealy as one movement into the entirely subversive realm of satire. Indian fiction, and the fiction of other colonized cultures, can be re-construed through the lens of satire as openly critical of a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues. Employing the strengths of postcolonial theory and criticism, Postcolonial Satire expands upon the postcolonial works of these authors by analyzing them as satire, rather than magical realism with satirical elements.