Postcolonial writing in the era of world literature : texts, territories, globalizations / Baidik Bhattacharya.
| Author/creator | Bhattacharya, Baidik, 1975- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Chapter Introduction: Poetics of Anglophone territories -- chapter 1 Cunning of empire -- chapter 2 Belated territories -- chapter 3 Provincial aesthetics -- chapter 4 Minority report -- chapter 5 A short history of death. |
| 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 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 21, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bhattacharya, Baidik, 1975- Postcolonial writing in the era of world literature. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018 1138559954 9781138559950 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9780429467721 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0429467729 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780429885488 |
| ISBN | 0429885482 |
| ISBN | 9780429885495 |
| ISBN | 0429885490 |
| ISBN | 9780429885471 |
| ISBN | 0429885474 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4324/9780429467721 |
| Stock number | 9780429885488 Ingram Content Group |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |