Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations

ISBN-13: 9780367734282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Baidik Bhattacharya

Opis

This book explores the debates surrounding postcolonial studies & world literature. It asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the 19th century ideal of world literature had always & already been embedded in colonial histories;  the promise it held out has been exhausted by postcolonial Anglopho

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Poetics of Anglophone Territories. 1. Chapter I: Cunning of Empire  2. Chapter II: Belated Territories  3. Chapter III: Provincial Aesthetics  4. Chapter IV: Minority Report  5. Chapter IV: A Short History of Death.  Index

O autorze

Baidik Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi, India. He was previously a Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Newcastle, UK (2006–10). He is the co-editor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (Routledge, 2012). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Interventions, and Postcolonial Studies among other places. He also serves on the editorial board of the journal Postcolonial Studies.