Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political:
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Beteilige Person: Sorensen, Eli Park 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
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Links:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003127741
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003127741
Abstract:"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, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse, in other words - incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people,' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent."
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 196 Seiten)
ISBN:9781003127741
DOI:10.4324/9781003127741