Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135936303
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Ser.
Content:
This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
Content:
Intro -- Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial Narrative Aesthetics -- Part I Pre- and Post-colonial Aesthetic Templates -- 1 Love, Marriage, and Realism: The Novel in Pre- and Post-colonial India -- 2 Post-colonial Utopianism: The Utility of Hope -- 3 ". . . At the Edge of Writing and Speech": Shifting Genre, Relocating the Aesthetic -- Part II Resistant and Subversive Genres -- 4 "Writing the Poetry of Troy": Mahmoud Darwish and the Lyrical Epic as Postcolonial Resistance Genre -- 5 Genre: Fidelity and Transgression in the Post-colonial African Novel -- 6 "De-Formed Narrators": Postcolonial Genre and Peripheral Modernity in Mabanckou and Pepetela -- 7 V.S. Naipaul's Heterobiographical Fictions or Postcolonial Melancholia Reinterpreted -- Part III Longue Durée Perspectives and Orature -- 8 Folktales In(to) Postcolonial Narratives and Aesthetics -- 9 A House, a Museum, and a Legend: Bait Al-Kretliya -- 10 . . . What Will Count as the World: Indian Short Story Cycles and the Question of Genre -- Part IV Emerging Narrative Genres -- 11 Saying Sorry: The Politics of Apology and Reconciliation in Recent Australian Fiction -- 12 Remapping Territories of Fiction in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love -- 13 Reading Short Stories as a Postcolonialist: Jhumpa Lahiri's "This Blessed House" -- 14 Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero -- Contributors -- Index.
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pt. I. Pre- and post-colonial aesthetic templatespt. II. Resistant and subversive genres -- pt. III. Longue durée perspectives and orature -- pt. IV. Emerging narrative genres.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415539609
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415539609
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Locating postcolonial narrative genres New York : Routledge, 2013 ISBN 9780415539609
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Erzähltheorie
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Postkolonialismus
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Englisch
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Electronic books
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