| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Poetics of Anglophone territories; 1 Cunning of empire; 2 Belated territories; 3 Provincial aesthetics; 4 Minority report; 5 A short history of death; Index |
| Summary |
"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 re-imagination 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."--Provided by publisher |
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Study and teaching
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Literature.
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Literature and society.
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Literature -- Translations
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Race in literature.
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Philology.
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Language and languages.
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Literary form.
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Fiction.
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching.
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Culture -- Study and teaching.
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Anthropology.
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Political science.
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History.
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Literature, Modern.
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Society in literature.
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Philology, Modern.
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Literature -- Translations.
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philology.
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languages (study discipline)
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language (general communication)
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anthropology.
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history (discipline)
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fiction (general genre)
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Society in literature
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Philology, Modern
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Literature, Modern
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Anthropology
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Culture -- Study and teaching
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Fiction
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History
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Language and languages
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Literary form
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Literature
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Literature and society
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Philology
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Political science
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching
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Race in literature
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Education
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008624
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Asia
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Translations
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429467721 |
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0429467729 |
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