|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910462869203321 |
|
|
Titolo |
Locating postcolonial narrative genres / / edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-283-97341-3 |
0-203-54528-1 |
1-135-93630-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (243 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 43 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
GoebelWalter |
SchabioSaskia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Postcolonialism in literature |
Narration (Rhetoric) |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
pt. I. Pre- and post-colonial aesthetic templates -- pt. II. Resistant and subversive genres -- pt. III. Longue dureĢe perspectives and orature -- pt. IV. Emerging narrative genres. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 st |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|