Locating postcolonial narrative genres
by Goebel, Walter Schabio, Saskia
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 postcolonia…
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- Full title :Locating postcolonial narrative genres / edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio.
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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 st.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (229 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1135936307, 9781135936303, 9781283973410, 1283973413, 9781135936372, 1135936374, 0203545281, 9780203545287
- DOI:10.4324/9780203545287
- oclc:ocn826685147
- LC Classification:PN56.P555
- Dewey Decimal:809/.93358
Table of Contents
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 Novel6 "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.
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