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Postcolonial Poetics
Patrick Crowley (Ed.)
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Description for Postcolonial Poetics
Hardcover. 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. This title investigates the idiosyncrasies of postcolonial poetics. Editor(s): Crowley, Patrick; Hiddleston, Jane. Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 684.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846317453
SKU
V9781846317453
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About Patrick Crowley (Ed.)
Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for Postcolonial Poetics
... this book will provide a key reference point for researchers embarking on analyses of postcolonial cultural production. Gillian Jein, French Studies, vol 67, no 1