Format:
1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
ISBN:
9781802075755
Content:
Postcolonial Naturalism proposes an innovative periodizing schema for historicizing contemporary Anglophone fiction. Engaging and revising the materialist paradigm of the Warwick Research Collective's concept of "world-literature," Fredric Jameson's mapping of modernity's cultural periods, and Christopher L. Hill's positing of a transnational naturalism, Eric D. Smith theorizes "postcolonial naturalism" as a structurally determined cultural logic rather than as a literary technique or style. Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important intervention invites us to reconsider the living history of aesthetic naturalism as well as its social and political implications for the practice of world-literature in the aftermath of anticolonial resistance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Naturalism, Postcolonialism, and World-Literature -- Narrative Desolation and Postcolonial Naturalism in V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas -- Neither Us nor Ours: The Dialectic of Hysteria and the Beautiful Soul in the Novels of Lewis Nkosi -- Heredity and Horizon in the Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Rhys, Cliff, and Adiga -- Future Perfect and the Impossible Present: Two Faces of Postcolonial Anti-Utopianism -- Conclusion: Naturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Capital in Crisis.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1837640505
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781837640508
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smith, Eric D. Postcolonial naturalism Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781837640508
Language:
English
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