The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Ato Quayson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107132819 |
This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Warnes |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230234437 |
This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.
Satire and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Satire and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Clement Ball |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415965934 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Bixby |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2009-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521113885 |
Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly 'apolitical' and 'ahistorical' writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing Beckett's novels in the context of the newly-liberated Irish Free State, Patrick Bixby explores for the first time their confrontation with the legacies of both Irish nationalism and British imperialism. In doing so, he reveals Beckett's fiction as a remarkable example of how postcolonial writing addresses the relationships between private consciousness and public life, as well as those between the novel form and a cultural environment including not only the literary tradition, but also political speeches, national monuments, and anthropological studies. With special attention to these relationships, the study demonstrates Beckett's challenge to familiar narratives of personal identity and communal belonging, which makes his writing integral to understanding the history of the novel and the fate of modernism, in addition to the emergence of postcolonial literature.
The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
Title | The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English PDF eBook |
Author | Geetha Ganapathy-Doré |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1443828181 |
Indian writers of English such as G. V. Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra and Jhumpa Lahiri have taken the potentialities of the novel form to new heights. Against the background of the genre’s macro-history, this study attempts to explain the stunning vitality, colourful diversity, and the outstanding but sometimes controversial success of postcolonial Indian novels in the light of ongoing debates in postcolonial studies. It analyses the warp and woof of the novelistic text through a cross-sectional scrutiny of the issues of democracy, the poetics of space, the times of empire, nation and globalization, self-writing in the auto/meta/docu-fictional modes, the musical, pictorial, cinematic and culinary intertextualities that run through this hyperpalimpsestic practice and the politics of gender, caste and language that gives it an inimitable stamp. This concise and readable survey gives us intimations of a truly world literature as imagined by Francophone writers because the postcolonial Indian novel is a concrete illustration of how “language liberated from its exclusive pact with the nation can enter into a dialogue with a vast polyphonic ensemble.”
Postcolonial Paris
Title | Postcolonial Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Laila Amine |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0299315800 |
Expanding the narrow script of what it means to be Parisian, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art made by Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son.
The Postcolonial Novel
Title | The Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lane |
Publisher | Polity |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2006-07-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0745632785 |
Richard Lane explores the themes surrounding the postcolonial novel written in English.