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Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel (Hardcover)
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Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel (Hardcover)
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Throughout the twentieth century, the realist novel has developed
in idiosyncratic, heterodox and unruly forms. As many writers have
recognized, the elaborate description and assured perspective of a
Balzac or Eliot no longer suit the times: how can the description
of a banana in a fruit basket tell us anything about the
intricacies of conquest and exploitation that carried it halfway
across the globe? Thus, the best contemporary realism employs
linguistic and formal experimentation in its portrayal. Nicholas
Robinette argues that a kind of realist backbeat structures the
cacophony of perspectives, moods, philosophical excursions, and
linguistic density of novels like Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour
Milk and George Lamming's The Emigrants. Realism, Form and the
Postcolonial Novel recovers this underlying realism and shows how
the postcolonial novel has employed formal experiment in order to
map our social experience.
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