What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

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Mukherjee, Ankhi

 
9780804785211: What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 080478521X ISBN 13: 9780804785211
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures, and multimedia adaptations of world classics. Throughout, Mukherjee attunes traditional literary critical concerns to the value contestations mobilizing postcolonial and world literature. The breadth of debates and topics she addresses, as well as the book's ambitious historical schema, which includes South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, set this study apart from related titles on the bookshelf today.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007).

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007).

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080478521X
ISBN 13 
9780804785211
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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