The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature [electronic resource] /
Loh, L.author.
By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Foreign fields that will be forever England -- The politics of postimperial melancholia and rural heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn -- Rural routes of empire, colonial nostalgia and the thatcher years: V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival -- Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore -- Towards a provincial cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York -- A distinctly uncosmopolitan present: the postcolonial rural in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps -- Historicising neocolonial globalisation and political revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A small place -- Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.
By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.