The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems
to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does
postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of
this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might
challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native
information globally? "The Long Space" provides a fresh look at the
importance of postcolonial writing by examining how it articulates
history and place both in content "and" form. Not only does it
offer a new theoretical model for understanding decolonization's
impact on duration in writing, but through a series of case studies
of Guyanese, Somali, Indonesian, and Algerian writers, it urges a
more protracted engagement with time and space in postcolonial
narrative. Although each writer--Wilson Harris, Nuruddin Farah,
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Assia Djebar--explores a unique
understanding of postcoloniality, each also makes a more general
assertion about the difference of time and space in decolonization.
Taken together, they herald a transnationalism beyond the
contaminated coordinates of globalization as currently construed.
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