Sneharika Roy

The Postcolonial Epic

From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott's Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's South Asi

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780367890438
• ISBN-10: 0367890437
• Artikelnr.: 58438708

Autorenporträt

Sneharika Roy is Assistant Professor of Comparative and English Literature at the American University of Paris, France. Her research focuses on comparative approaches to epic that bridge classical and postcolonial theory and literatures. She is a contributor to the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh and to the French encyclopaedic project Dictionnaire des litteratures indiennes (Dictionary of Indian Literatures).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction: From Classical to Postcolonial Epic 1.
Rallying the Tropes: The Language of Violence and the Violence of Language
2. 'History in the Future Tense': Genealogy as Prophecy 3. 'The Artifice of
Eternity': Ekphrasis as 'An-other' Epic 4. Conclusion: Resistant Nostalgia.
Bibliography. Index