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Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political (Paperback)
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Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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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.
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