Ato Quayson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
This precious critical overview of the main directions taken on by the postcolonial novel builds on familiar if highly topical analyses, which it summarizes and augments; it also presents itself as a turning point, leaving behind “the emphasis […] to combine the explication of historical and politi...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This precious critical overview of the main directions taken on by the postcolonial novel builds on familiar if highly topical analyses, which it summarizes and augments; it also presents itself as a turning point, leaving behind “the emphasis […] to combine the explication of historical and political contexts with explorations of the rhetorical dimensions of the novels in question” (3). Ato Quayson’s introduction contrasts what he calls, after Biodun Jeyifo, a heretofore prevailing “prolept... |
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