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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 189–196.
Published: 01 May 2010
... engagement with the question of fictiveness should be on the agenda of political criticism. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Literature, Fictiveness,
and Postcolonial Criticism
Alok Yadav
The question I address is the following: what is our understanding...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jonathan Arac Examining changes in the study of the novel since Novel began publication in 1967, this essay focuses on the current importance of world literature as a topic for debate and exploration and suggests that complex relationships with the study of postcolonial literature have helped...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... tool for analyzing postcolonial literatures. Doing so, however, requires us to jettison Lukács's progressive historicism in favor of a model of literary history shaped by uneven temporalities and a fundamental disjunction between the historical perspectives of settler and nonsettler communities—thus...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... readings of two contemporary novelists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) and Chetan Bhagat (India). Despite coming from different countries and political positions, both authors break open existing paradigms in postcolonial literature and represent a new imagining of the potential relationship between...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , 2014 . Brouillette Sarah . Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2007 . Brouillette Sarah . “ South Asian Literature and Global Publishing .” Wasafiri 22 . 3 ( 2007 ): 34 – 38 . Chandra Vikram . “ The Cult...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to the Third World necessitates the construction of a global history of the novel that will redress the myopia in novel studies, postcolonialism, and contemporary theories of world literature. To return to folkloric culture after it had gone through “the processing” is destined to be an ambiguous move...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... also urge reconsideration of the relationship between capital- L literature and genre fiction. Freed from an obligation to represent the nation, contemporary postcolonial genre novels can stand out in their eagerness to join commentary from across the disciplines in busily considering the shape...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
... understood is the continued centrality
of nationhood and nationalism in the postcolonial literary critical framework that
was collaboratively created from the 1980s onward by scholars from or in different
parts of the globe to serve as an analytical tool for third-world literatures in the
twentieth...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 512–514.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and the Literary: Theory, Interpreta-
tion, and the Novel is a tightly constructed hypothesis on postcolonial criticism’s continual
disavowal of literary texts despite the fact that so many of its practitioners call literature
departments their home. Sorensen mobilizes Freud’s theory of melancholia to suggest...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
... literature pluralism postcolonialism literary nationalism Postcolonialism and the field that succeeds it—known variously in English departments as world, global, and transnational literature—struggle with the matter of categories. Globalist scholars often aim to bypass definition altogether: we tend...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 316–320.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Paul Stasi Cheah Pheng , What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature ( Durham : Duke UP , 2016 ), pp. 408, cloth, $99.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Paul Stasi 2017 Pheng Cheah answers the titular question of his new book, What Is a World? On Postcolonial...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... literature as a postcolonial formation, see Ashcroft 15 . 1 I would like to thank Kenneth Warren of the University of Chicago for his warmth and generosity in allowing me to discuss this question with him, and to acknowledge his influence on my thinking as I was completing this essay...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 August 2014
...: The Political Horizon for Twentieth-Century Literature . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2005 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2000 . Chatterjee Partha . Empire and Nation: Selected Essays . Intro...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): v.
Published: 01 August 2000
... in Portland, Oregon,
where she teaches courses on modernism and postcolonial literature.
ELIZABETH KOWALESKIWALLACE is Professor of English at Boston College and is the author of
Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century. Her work-
in-progress considers...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): v.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of 'Sr~rfacirrg' thc Politics of Desire: Literature, Ferninisin, ~rird Mytil, along with
numerous articles.
EL1 PARK SORENSEN is Assistant Professor of English at Kyung Hee University, Global Campus
(South Korea). He has published articles and book chapters on postcolonial theory...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 482–489.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., ethnography, moral reflection, and fic-
tion, the Hikayat Abdullah is widely regarded by postcolonial literary historians
in Malaysia and Indonesia as the earliest instance of “modern” Malay literature.
One scene in Abdullah’s work provides an oblique commentary on how Abdullah,
following his...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
... organizing rubric for studying disparate literary cultures: world literature, which competed with postcolonial literature to bring non-European literary cultures to critical attention. Arguing that European culture initiates literary trends, which literatures from other parts of the world imitate and emulate...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Giovanni Arrighi realism world literature postcolonial literature Marxism At one point, during the bygone age of postmodernism, nothing was real. Now, everything is—or at least claims to be. To make matters even more confusing, it is increasingly...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2015
... are never decisive enough. Weihsin Gui's recent monograph asserts the continued significance of both nationalism and postcolonial literature, arguing that postcolonial literary style can help us to understand nationalism as “a critical constellation,” not necessarily unitary or exclusionary (1). To make...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Scott W. Klein Kalliney Peter J. , Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2013 ) , pp. 336, cloth, $65.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 In The Hedgehog and the Fox , his...
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