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1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) |
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Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser. ; v.26 |
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Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser.
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| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Summary |
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book sets out to understand how the meaning of 'literature' was transformed in the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional contexts in South Africa (mainly Johannesburg), Brazil (São Paulo), Senegal (Dakar) and Kenya (Nairobi), and engages with critical writing in English, Portuguese and French. Critics studied in the book include Antonio Candido, Tim Couzens, Isabel Hofmeyr, Es'kia Mphahlele, Léopold Senghor, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. By reading these intellectuals of the Global South as producers of theory and practice in their own right, the book attempts to demonstrate the contingency of what is her called the worlding of the concept of literature. 'Decolonisation' itself is seen as a contingent, non-linear process that unfolds in a recursive dialogue with the past. In a bid to offer a more grounded approach to world literature, a key objective of this study is therefore to investigate the accumulation of temporalities in institutional histories of critical practice. To reach this objective, it engages the method of conceptual history as developed by Reinhart Koselleck and David Scott, demonstrating how the concept of 'literature' is resemanticised in ways that dialectically both challenge and consolidate literature as a concept and practice in post-colonised societies. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Decolonization in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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African literature -- History and criticism.
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Brazilian literature -- History and criticism.
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Décolonisation dans la littérature.
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Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
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Littérature africaine -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature brésilienne -- Histoire et critique.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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African literature
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Brazilian literature
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Decolonization in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: 1802070095 9781802070095 (OCoLC)1273675081 |
| ISBN |
9781802070651 (electronic bk.) |
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1802070656 (electronic bk.) |
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1802070095 |
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9781802070095 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000072051324 |
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AU@ 000074160116 |
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