1st Edition

Postcolonial Custodianship Cultural and Literary Inheritance

By Filippo Menozzi Copyright 2014
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our understanding of this topic through the concept of custodianship, which may be defined as a... Read more

Introduction: Poetic Inheritance, Postcolonial Custodianship  1. Custodian of the Unspeakable: Reading Anita Desai  2. Guarding the Secret: Allegory and Realism in Imaginary Maps  3. The Curators of the Real: Arundhati Roy's Custodianship  4. Woven into a Song: Cultural Relays in The London Jungle Book  Conclusion: "Custodying" the Future

Biography

Filippo Menozzi is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK, where he teaches courses in Romanticism and Critical Theory, and Literatures of the Twentieth Century. His research interests are postcolonial literature and theory, migration studies, and critical theory.

"An absorbing and thoughtful study of the ethics of postcolonial intellectualism, superbly researched and subtly argued." – Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick, UK