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Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres (Hardcover, New)
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Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the
evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative
genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in
postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of
literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the
literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative
techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays
delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a
variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the
short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on
genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and
orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic
value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation,
negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of
explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also
explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus
globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational,
taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in
discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic
forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of
narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable
insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
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