Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g
From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-89043-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of ‘political epic’, where an avowed national politics promoting a culture’s ‘pure’ origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from ‘other’ cultures.
An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.
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Acknowledgements. Introduction: From Classical to Postcolonial Epic 1. Rallying the Tropes: The Language of Violence and the Violence of Language 2. ‘History in the Future Tense’: Genealogy as Prophecy 3. ‘The Artifice of Eternity’: Ekphrasis as ‘An-other’ Epic 4. Conclusion: Resistant Nostalgia. Bibliography. Index