Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature Texts, Territories, Globalizations

Baidik Bhattacharya, "Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations"
English | ISBN: 1138559954 | 2018 | 198 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields - postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the nineteenth-century ideal of world literature had always and already been embedded in colonial histories; and also because whatever promise that ideal held out has been exhausted by postcolonial Anglophone literature. Through fresh and incisive readings of the postcolonial canon and some of its most prominent authors like Rudyard Kipling, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the volume discusses how these Anglophone writings have used the banal and ordinary ideal of world literature to fashion out their own trajectories.