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 has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naive, anachronistic, deceptive, or co...

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Beteilige Person:	Sorensen, Eli Park 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	London, New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
Schlagwörter:	Realismus Postkoloniale Literatur Politik
Zusammenfassung:	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 has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naive, 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:	196 Seiten Breite 152 mm, Hoehe 229 mm
ISBN:	9780367650803 9780367650780