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Affective Disorders - Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Paperback)
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Affective Disorders - Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 21
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Situated
at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and
narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of
emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through
close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,
and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that
literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely
at the level of character, individual psychology, or the
contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader
sociopolitical forces. We thus find episodes of anger that serve as
a collective response to the 'modernity' of wartime Cairo, feelings
of jealousy that are inspired by the slave economy of imperial
Brazil, and an overwhelming sense of boredom that emerges, in the
late eighties, out of the bureaucratic procedures of the Indian
Administrative Service. Affective Disorders also explores in some
detail the formal consequences of these feelings - the way in which
affective states such as anger or jealousy can often destabilize
narratives, provoking crises of representation, generic
ambivalence, and discursive rupture. By emphasizing the social
origin of these emotions, and by analysing their influence on
literary discourse, this study provides a deeper understanding of
the relationship between various sociopolitical forces and the
affective and aesthetic 'disorders' to which they give rise.
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