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Postcolonial Literature and Challenges for the New Millennium

Editat de Lucienne Loh, Malcolm Sen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 ian 2018
This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoretical underpinnings and political motivations of postcolonial studies in the new millennium.
Colonial legacies, especially in terms of structuring exploitative capitalist relations between countries and regions are shown to persist in postcolonial nations in the form of ‘global civil wars’ and systemic environmental waste. Chinese authoritarianism and the Indian picturesque represent less familiar forms of neo-colonialism. These essays not only engage with established writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai; they also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138306295
ISBN-10: 1138306290
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Foreword: Postcolonial Studies in a Twenty-First Century Environment  1. Introduction: Postcolonial literature and challenges for the new millennium  2. Including China: Bei Dao, resistance and the imperial state  3. The epic spirit in Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma and the ‘new’ China as twenty-first-century Empire  4. Reading Lolita in Tel Aviv: terrorism, fundamentalism and the novel  5. ‘Representing the very ethic he battled’: secularism, Islam(ism) and self-transgression in The Satanic Verses  6. Global civil war and post-9/11 discourse in The Wasted Vigil  7. Landmines, language, and dismemberment: Mia Couto’s imperial residues  8. Bones of corals made: ecology and war in Gunesekara’s Reef  9. Guns & Roses: reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain  10. Epilogue: the pterodactyl of history?

Descriere

This book explores four themes which are innately interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. It was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.