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The Postcolonial Epic
- From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Postcolonial Epic af Sneharika Roy, 9780367890438
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780367890438
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367890437
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 31,2 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019
Forfatter(e):

The Postcolonial Epic

- From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Engelsk
Paperback 2019
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This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy.





The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of ‘political epic’, where an avowed national politics promoting a culture’s ‘pure’ origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from ‘other’ cultures.





An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780367890438
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367890437
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 31,2 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019
Forfatter(e):
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