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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

809/.93358

Soggetti

Postcolonialism in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

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 dureĢe 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