Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace Located Reading
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.08.2021
Abbildungen
XIII, 261 p.
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UKSeitenzahl
261
Maße (B/H)
14.8/21 cm
Auflage
2020 edition
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-349-84916-1
This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier’s
The Lost Steps
(1953), Leonardo Padura’s
Adios, Hemingway
(2001), Tabish Khair’s
Filming
(2007), Chibundhu Onuzo’s
Welcome to Lagos
(2017), and Zadie Smith’s
Swing Time
(2016). Chapters argue that while India’s literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer’s trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on ‘located reading’, enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.
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