Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing
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2018
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1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-70340-4 (ISBN)
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-70340-4 (ISBN)
This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial aesthetics with Romantic ideas about sense, history and world.
What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated - but never exhausted - by postcolonial writing.
What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated - but never exhausted - by postcolonial writing.
Philip Dickinson is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and World Literature at Lancaster University, UK.
1. Romanticism and Postcolonial Writing: Living Thoughts, Breathing Worlds.- 2. Walcott, Wordsworth, and the Extinction of Sense.- Countervoice I: George Lamming.- 3. Dis-enclosure: Landscape, Lyric Form, and The Enigma of Arrival.- Countervoice II: Anita Desai.- 4. White Writing and the Regime of the Sensory.- Countervoice III: J. M. Coetzee.- 5. Spivak's Imagination.
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.02.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | VIII, 200 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 384 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Anita Desai • Derek Walcott • Gayatri Spivak • George Lamming • Jamaica Kincaid • J. M. Coetzee • V. S. Naipaul |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-70340-4 / 3319703404 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-70340-4 / 9783319703404 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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