The Postcolonial Country In Contemporary Literature

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 : Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Discourse written by Rajinder Kumar Dhawan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As A Critical Ideology, Postcolonialism Has Acquired Various Interpretations. Postcolonial Literature Generally Deals With The Literature Of Those Countries Once Ruled Or Colonized By The British. The Book Offers A Hot And Stimulating Debate On The Term Postcolonial And Discusses How Passionately Indian English, African And Caribbean Literatures Have Responded To Colonialism And Post-Independence.

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739164287
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Low Countries written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain. In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial 'readymades' as hybridity, accommodation and creolization. Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.

Author : Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220129
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Home written by Rosemary Marangoly George and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A groundbreaking move beyond the first generation of postcolonial criticism."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441175490
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2000s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in which it is written, published and read. This major literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.

Author : Lorna Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350053052
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonialism After World Literature written by Lorna Burns and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How is postcolonial criticism challenged by contemporary world literature approaches? And how must world literature be rethought in light of the legacies of postcolonialism? Exploring their fault lines and their affinities, Postcolonialism After World Literature brings these two critical schools into conversation to renew our understanding of how contemporary literature responds to the challenges of globalization. Bringing postcolonial perspectives to bear on the work of important world literature critics such as Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova and drawing on contemporary philosophical thought in the work of Deleuze and Ranciére, Lorna Burns argues for a new framework for writing about literary responses to key issues such as cosmopolitanism, the nation state and global culture. Writers covered include: Roberto Bolaño, J.M. Coetzee, Kamel Daoud, Rawi Hage, Moshin Hamid, Yuri Herrera, Marlon James and Pauline Melville"--

Author : Lucienne Loh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331885
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( 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 208 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 : Jini Kim Watson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082328008X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Contemporary written by Jini Kim Watson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) The Postcolonial Contemporary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.

Author : Daniel O'Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134743777
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction written by Daniel O'Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge, mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards, as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature, this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then, such as Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity, including race, sexuality, class, and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology, terrorism, activism, and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction, including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral, graphic novels, and comedic writing, and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts, students, and general readers, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of contemporary literature.

Author : Anna Bernard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150954464X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Literature written by Anna Bernard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done. How can students and educators best participate in this urgent intellectual and political project? Anna Bernard argues that the decolonization of literary studies requires a change to not only what, but how, we read. In lively prose, she explores work that has already been done, both within and beyond the academy, and challenges readers to think about where we go from here. She suggests ways to recognize and respond to the political work that texts do, considering questions of language and translation, comparative reading, ideological argument, and genre in relation to the history of anticolonial struggle. Above all, Bernard shows that although we still have far to go, the work of decolonizing literary studies is already under way. Decolonizing Literature is a must-have resource for all those concerned by the development and future of the field.