Postcolonial studies and the literary : theory, interpretation and the novel

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Title:

Postcolonial studies and the literary : theory, interpretation and the novel

Author:

Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-

ISBN:

9780230252622

Personal Author:

Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-

Publication Information:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

xiv, 189 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

The melancholia of postcolonial studies -- Returning to the literary -- Utopian-interpretive trajectories -- Form and temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala -- Arcades of foreignness : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Realism in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.

Personal Subject:

Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-.

Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-.

Subject Term:

Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Criticism.

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Summary

Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text.