Postcolonial studies and the literary : theory, interpretation and the novel /
Sorensen, Eli Park,1979-
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
"Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalisation in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text"--
"Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalisation in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The melancholia of postcolonial studies -- Returning to the literary -- Utopian-interpretive trajectories -- Form and temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala -- Arcades of foreignness : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Realism in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature
Criticism.