Postcolonial Studies and the Literary Theory, Interpretation and the Novel
by Sorensen, Eli ParkFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-06-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalisation in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text.
Author Biography
Eli Park Sorensen wrote his PhD in Comparative Literature at University College, London, UK, where he was also a teaching fellow. His work focuses on postcolonial studies, contemporary British fiction, international adoption literature and literary theory. He is currently a research fellow in English at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. x |
| The Melancholia of Postcolonial Studies | p. 3 |
| Literary form and postcolonial studies | p. 3 |
| The modernist ethos | p. 8 |
| The postcolonial perspective | p. 12 |
| Melancholic self-reflections | p. 16 |
| Postcolonial studies and literature | p. 18 |
| The melancholia of postcolonial studies | p. 22 |
| Returning to the Literary | p. 26 |
| Can the literary speak? | p. 26 |
| Literature at the threshold | p. 31 |
| Literary otherness | p. 33 |
| The politics of form | p. 35 |
| The monopolisation of the literary | p. 38 |
| Realism as straw man | p. 41 |
| Critical fictions | p. 46 |
| Utopian-Interpretive Trajectories | p. 52 |
| Utopian trajectories | p. 52 |
| The secret of the form | p. 55 |
| Lukács's theory of the novel I: The Theory of the Novel | p. 58 |
| Lukács's theory of the novel II: realism | p. 66 |
| History, postcoloniality and literary form | p. 71 |
| Form and Temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala | p. 75 |
| The problematic of imitativeness | p. 75 |
| Intermediary dreams | p. 77 |
| Incomplete fusions | p. 80 |
| History as still life | p. 84 |
| The return of the repressed | p. 90 |
| Negative realism | p. 94 |
| Arcades of Foreignness J. M. Coetzee's Foe | p. 96 |
| Writing back to the centre and the question of canonicity | p. 96 |
| Literalness and irony | p. 99 |
| Narrative silences and mysteries | p. 100 |
| Authorial struggles | p. 102 |
| Cannibalism and otherness | p. 104 |
| Thresholds of translation | p. 106 |
| Arcades of foreignness | p. 109 |
| Worldliness, criticism and literature | p. 110 |
| The beginning is a ruin | p. 116 |
| Realism in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance | p. 121 |
| Lukácsian overtures | p. 121 |
| Accidents and history | p. 123 |
| Superfluity, interpretation, causes | p. 126 |
| Antibodies and blood | p. 129 |
| Games and laws | p. 131 |
| Stitching, narrating, describing | p. 134 |
| Conclusion: Realism, Form and Balance | p. 138 |
| Notes | p. 143 |
| Works Cited | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 184 |
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