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Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
- Texts of Contemporary Excess
Engelsk Paperback
Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
- Texts of Contemporary Excess
Engelsk Paperback

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Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women’s/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of novelists such as Githa Hariharan, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Coover and Ben Okri, selected to reveal the range and intensity of the grotesque in contemporary fiction through their de/constructions of gender and postcolonial politics.
Complementary fields with the grotesque are considered through theorisations of Mary Russo, Julia Kristeva, Martha Reineke, René Girard and other intellectuals. Various literary formulations/frameworks are discussed to supplement views presented in the canonical texts of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser: post-colonial feminine identity/alterity/exoticism; postcolonial national identity; female grotesqueness and animal metamorphosis; abjectification; the principle of sacrificial economy; mythologisations of feminine martyrdom and motherhood; religious and political tyranny associated with imperialism and re-appropriation of carnivalesque-grotesque types in postmodernity.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
456
ISBN-13:
9783034305983
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3034305982
Udg. Dato:
25 feb 2011
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
247mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Oplagsdato:
25 feb 2011
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