Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / Eli Park Sorensen.
Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-| Call Number | 809/.912 |
| Author | Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979- author. |
| Title | Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / Eli Park Sorensen. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages). |
| Series | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature |
| Contents | Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey. |
| Summary | "As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies have either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse, in other words - incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people,' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent"-- |
| Subject | REALISM IN LITERATURE. Postcolonialism in literature. Postcolonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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| Summary | "As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies have either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse, in other words - incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people,' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent"-- |
| Contents | Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey. |
| Subject | REALISM IN LITERATURE. Postcolonialism in literature. Postcolonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Multimedia |