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Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political book cover

1st Edition

Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political

By Eli Park Sorensen Copyright 2021
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse; in other words—incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues... Read more
  1. Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the End of History

  2. Chapter 1: Nation, Nationalism, and the Novel Form

  3. Chapter 2: The Historico-Political Discourse

  4. Chapter 3: The Political Significance of Literary Realism

  5. Chapter 4: Postcolonial Realism

  6. Chapter 5: The Politics of Realism: Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey

  7. Conclusion

  8. Index

Biography

Eli Park Sorensen is an assistant professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Dr. Sorensen’s publications include Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published in journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Narrative Theory, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, Modern Drama, Research in African Literatures, Explicator, Partial Answers, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature.

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