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020 $a9781138063631$qhardcover
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035 $a(OCoLC)1007756576
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050 4 $aPN56.E65$bR68 2018
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100 1 $aRoy, Sneharika,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe postcolonial epic :$bfrom Melville to Walcott and Ghosh /$cSneharika Roy.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2018.
300 $axiii, 208 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aLiterary cultures of the global south
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages188-202) and index.
520 $aThis book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott's Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy. The work focuses on the epic genre's rich potential to articulate post-imperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North-South divide. It foregrounds the genre's postcolonial shifts from politics to political economy, the subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the post-structuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North-South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of 'political epic', where an avowed national politics promoting a culture's 'pure' origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from 'other' cultures. An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies. "--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aEpic literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism in literature.
830 0 $aLiterary cultures of the global south.
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.E65$iR68 2018