Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form

Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form
ISBN-10
1846317452
ISBN-13
9781846317453
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
279
Language
English
Published
2011-01-01
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Authors
Jane Hiddleston, Patrick Crowley

Description

Responding to calls to focus on postcolonial literature's literary qualities instead of merely its political content, this volume investigates the idiosyncrasies of postcolonial poetics. However, rather than privileging the literary at the expense of the political, the essays collected here analyze how texts use genre and form to offer multiple and distinct ways of responding to political and historical questions. By probing how different kinds of literary writing can blur with other discourses, the contributors offer key insights into postcolonial literature's power to imagine alternative identities and societies.

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