05198oam 2200781I 450 991045172460332120200520144314.01-136-45439-X0-203-12616-510.4324/9780203126165 (CKB)2550000000098190(EBL)956914(OCoLC)798532448(SSID)ssj0000678769(PQKBManifestationID)11396297(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678769(PQKBWorkID)10728678(PQKB)11750089(MiAaPQ)EBC956914(Au-PeEL)EBL956914(CaPaEBR)ebr10542351(CaONFJC)MIL761088(OCoLC)785335315(EXLCZ)99255000000009819020180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial audiences readers, viewers and reception /edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma RobinsonNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (267 p.)Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;37Description based upon print version of record.1-138-85155-8 0-415-88871-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Postcolonial Audiences; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; A Preface: Reflections on The Postcolonial Exotic: Graham Huggan; Introduction: Bethan Benwell, James Procterand Gemma Robinson; Part I: Real Readers/Actual Audiences; 1. The Politics of PostcolonialLaughter: The International Reception of the NewZealand Animated Comedy Series bro'Town: Michelle Keown; 2. "That May Be Where I Come from but That's Not How I Read": Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities: Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson3. "Bollywood" Adolescents: Young Viewers Discuss Class, Representation and Hindi Films: Shakuntala BanajiPart II: Readers and Publishers; 4. Does the North Read the South?: The International Reception of South African Scholarly Texts: Elizabeth Le Roux; 5. William Plomer Reading: The Publisher's Reader at Jonathan Cape: Gail Low; 6. Too Much Rushdie, Not Enough Romance?: The UK Publishing Industry and BME (Black Minority Ethnic) Readership: Claire Squires; Part III: Reading in Representation; 7. Rushdie's Hero as Audience: Interpreting India through Indian Popular Cinema: Florian Stadtler8. The "New" India and the Politics of Reading in Pankaj Mishra's Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Lucienne Loh9. Local and Global Reading Communities in Robert Antoni's My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales: Lucy Evans; Part IV: Reading and Nationalism; 10. Reading Gender and Social Reform in the Indian Social Reformer: Srila Nayak; 11. Reading after Terror: The Reluctant Fundamentalist and First-World Allegory: Neelam Srivastava; 12. "Macaulay's Children": Thomas Babington Macaulay and the Imperialism of Reading in India: Katie Halsey; Part V: Reading and Postcolonial Ethics13. Theorising Postcolonial Reception: Writing, Reading and Moral Agency in the Satanic Verses Affair: Daniel Allington14. Reading before the Law: Melville's 'Bartleby' and Asylum Seeker Narratives: David Farrier; 15. Sympathetic Shame in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year: Katherine Hallemeier; 16. Responsible Reading and Cultural Distance: Derek Attridge; Contributors; IndexWithout readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studieRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;37.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticismEnglish literatureDeveloping countriesHistory and criticismPostcolonialismEnglish-speaking countriesPostcolonialismCommonwealth countriesIntercultural communicationPostcolonialismElectronic books.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.PostcolonialismPostcolonialismIntercultural communication.Postcolonialism.820.9/3581Benwell Bethan142949Procter James625883Robinson Gemma979838MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451724603321Postcolonial audiences2234629UNINA