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Postcolonial Poetics - Genre and Form (Hardcover, New)
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Postcolonial Poetics - Genre and Form (Hardcover, New)
Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 2
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Postcolonial literature has often tended to invite readings that
focus on the relation between texts and political contexts, not
surprisingly perhaps, given the fraught historical moments of
colonialism and decolonisation with which it frequently engages.
Nevertheless, critics such as Nicholas Harrison have argued for
attention to the literary as literary, and have explored the ways
in which literary representation makes any assumed ideological
content necessarily indeterminate. Taking into account this call
for attention to the literary, this volume investigates more
specifically the idiosyncrasies of postcolonial poetics, including
postcolonial literature's use of and experimentation with genre and
form. However, this attention to poetics is not intended to replace
political engagement, and, rather than privileging the literary at
the expense of the political, this volume analyses how texts use
genre and form to offer multiple distinct ways of responding to
political and historical questions. Postcolonial texts engage with
the political world in a variety of ways, directly or indirectly,
and it is in their specific uses of genre and form that they alter
or develop our understanding of the particular contexts with which
they grapple. According to Graham Huggan, postcolonial studies is
inherently plural and interdisciplinary, in that it is made up of
literary and cultural analysis as well as political theory,
psychoanalysis, anthropology, history and philosophy. It is in the
combination and manipulation of such forms of analysis that
postcolonialism is able to imagine alternative identities and
societies. This volume of postcolonial poetics therefore probes
some examples of different kinds of literary writing, its blurring
with other discourses and its manipulation of genre and form, in
order to achieve a better understanding of its transformatory
power.This exploration of the poetics of genre also sheds light on
how different kinds of texts offer specific, distinct modes of
thought.
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