Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres 1st Edition by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio 9780415539609 0415539609

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ISBN 10: 0415539609

ISBN 13: 9780415539609

Author: Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.

Table of contents:

PART I Pre- and Post-colonial Aesthetic Templates

1 Love, Marriage, and Realism The Novel in Pre- and Post-colonial India

2 Post-colonial Utopianism The Utility of Hope

3 “ … At the Edge of Writing and Speech” Shifting Genre, Relocating the Aesthetic

PART II Resistant and Subversive Genres

4 “Writing the Poetry of Troy” Mahmoud Darwish and the Lyrical Epic as Postcolonial Resistance Genre

5 Genre Fidelity and Transgression in the Post-colonial African Novel

6 “De-Formed Narrators” Postcolonial Genre and Peripheral Modernity in Mabanckou and Pepetela

7 V.S. Naipaul’s Heterobiographical Fictions or Postcolonial Melancholia Reinterpreted

PART III Longue Durée Perspectives and Orature

8 Folktales In(to) Postcolonial Narratives and Aesthetics

9 A House, a Museum, and a Legend Bait Al-Kretliya

10 … What Will Count as the World Indian Short Story Cycles and the Question of Genre

PART IV Emerging Narrative Genres

11 Saying Sorry The Politics of Apology and Reconciliation in Recent Australian Fiction

12 Remapping Territories of Fiction in Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love

13 Reading Short Stories as a Postcolonialist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “This Blessed House”

14 Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero

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