Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the
postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial
critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and
consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of
meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent
criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an
ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political
consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of
resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the
reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy
figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a
distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of
reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars
in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be
varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our
assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial - from the
notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an
ethics of reading.
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