By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre?s important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajec…
By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajec…
Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey. …
"As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies have either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachron…