Graham Huggan

The Postcolonial Exotic (eBook, PDF)

Marketing the Margins

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Produktbeschreibung

Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134576982
• Artikelnr.: 42975608

Autorenporträt

Graham Huggan

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism
exoticism and the politics of cultural value
1. African literature and the anthropological exotic
2. Consuming India
3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie
Naipaul
Kureishi
4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker
5. Exoticism
ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy
6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity
7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction
8. Margaret Atwood
Inc.
or
some thoughts on literary celebrity
Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium
Notes
Bibliography
Index