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Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel: Literatures of Precarity
Jens Elze
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Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel's traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for ... Read more
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel's traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319519371
SKU
V9783319519371
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About Jens Elze
Jens Elze is Post-Doctoral Researcher in English Literature and in the Junior Research Group Multiple Modernities at the Graduate School of the Humanities, University of Goettingen, Germany.
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