Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / (Record no. 18878)
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| Classification number | PN56.R3 |
| Item number | P67 2021 |
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| Subject category code | LIT |
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| Subject category code | DSBH |
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| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809/.912 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sorensen, Eli Park, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1979- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Eli Park Sorensen. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Routledge, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2021. |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2021 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages). |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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 have 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 that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people,' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent"-- |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Realism in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Postcolonialism in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Postcolonialism. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Read Online |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003127741">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003127741</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf">http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf</a> |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | eBook |
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