"Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace," now in
paperback and with a new Preface, considers some of the market
conditions that have framed the emergence of English-language
postcolonial literatures, and suggests modifications to existing
accounts of how a writer's marginality is experienced by consumers
of postcolonial texts. Arguing that the incorporation of writers
who are marketed as postcolonial has been crucial to global
expansion and consolidation in the publishing industry, Sarah
Brouillette connects market incorporation to the self-consciousness
of a set of postcolonial writers. She situates their attempts at
self-definition, self-critique, and self-defence within the general
history of literary authorship, and argues for new ways of
understanding authorship in light of the experiences of figures
like Derek Walcott and Salman Rushdie. Combining explorations of
existing theory with wide-scale market analysis and close attention
to writers' careers and texts, the study makes an exciting
contribution to globalization studies and to the emerging history
of the postcolonial book.
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