Sneharika Roy. The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
By calling for a reassessment of the epic’s role in postcolonial literatures and theory, The Postcolonial Epic challenges postcolonial scholarship’s traditional overemphasis on the novel genre and offers a fascinating contribution to current discussions highlighting the relevance of generic issues...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2019
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | By calling for a reassessment of the epic’s role in postcolonial literatures and theory, The Postcolonial Epic challenges postcolonial scholarship’s traditional overemphasis on the novel genre and offers a fascinating contribution to current discussions highlighting the relevance of generic issues in the literatures of the Global South. In her book, Sneharika Roy traces new affiliations between Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), Derek Walcott’s book-length poem Omeros (1990), and Amitav Gos... |
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