Literature for Our Times : Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century.
Bill. Ashcroft
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (677 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Convivial Critical Democracy - Post-Colonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century; THE IDEA OF (POSTCOLONIAL) LITERATURE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; The Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature; Global Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era; Not (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid's Postcolonialism; Frailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times. - A Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit WomenTamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles; Categories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature; THE CITY; Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally; Streets and Transformation in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and "Stuart"; TERRORISM, TRAUMA, LOSS; Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing. - Affect and the Ethics of Reading 'Post-Conflict' Memoirs: Revisiting Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. - Bearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and HistoryINDIGENOUS LITERATURES, LITERATURES OF THE LAND: AN ETHOS FOR THESE TIMES; Literature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times; Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction; From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior? Constructions of a Māori Tradition of Warfare; A Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature; Asia's Christian-Latin Nation? Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines; DALIT LITERATURE AND ITS CRITICISM. - English in the Languages of Cultural EncountersLITERATURES OF DIASPORA AND MIGRANCY; The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality?; Drickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Waves of Nothingness; Bhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab; "Trading Places in the Promised Lands": Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives; Writing as Healing: Fijindians - The Twice Banished?; GENDERED BODIES; To Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights; Gendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. - Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita KAFTER SAID: IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIP, RACE, AND ETHNICITY; From Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey's Providential Orientalism; Rebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond's A Flight of Pigeons; A Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages; Ngũgĩ's Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex; Re-membering the Dismembered: Ngũgĩ's wa Thiong'o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation; Scars of Language in Translation: The 'Itchy' Poetics of Jam Ismail. - Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of different approaches and methodologies to 'live together' in a spirit of 'convivial democracy', these essays range widely across regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established and emerging critics demonstrate the ways i
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| ISBN | 9789042034532
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