What is a classic? :: postcolonial rewriting and invention of the canon /

This work 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 20th and 21st century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance...

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Main Author: Mukherjee, Ankhi
Other Authors: Vries, Hent de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This work 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 20th and 21st century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804788380
0804788383

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