Brand Postcolonial : 'Third World' Texts and the Global

Brand Postcolonial 'Third World' Texts and the Global

The postcolonial author, whether Kamila Shamsie from Pakistan, Chimamanda Adichie from Nigeria or Arundhati Roy from India, is a brand. Instantly recognizable in the literary-cultural marketplace, the postcolonial, this book argues, positions itself and influences the transnational cultural industry...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nayar, Pramod K., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter 2019
[2021]
Subjects:
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.
Postcolonial, globalization, literature.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425883806719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global
  • 2 The Postcolonial Exotic: The Cult of Authenticity
  • 3 Re-Orientalism: The Indigene and the Subaltern
  • 4 Thirdworldism: The Transnational Literary-Ethnic Chic
  • 5 Postcolonial Texts: Towards a New Humanism
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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