Titlebook: Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010; Rachel Bower Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Letters.Genre.Ph

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Book 2017ed in this book is the appeal that they make to us, as readers, and the responsibility they place on us to respond to this address..By taking the epistle as its starting point and pursuing Auerbach’s speculative ideal of .weltliteratur., this book turns away from the dominant trend of ‘distant readi

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Introduction,nique model of comparative criticism in response to this epistolary revival, combining an epistolary . (starting point) with archival research and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the literary field. By taking the epistle as the starting point and pursuing Erich Auerbach’s speculative ideal of ., this c

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,Searching for Letters in the Archive: Amitav Ghosh’s , , (1992) and Michael Ondaatje’s , , (1987),hrough a close examination of Michael Ondaatje’s . and Amitav Ghosh’s .. Bower creates comparable case studies to reveal how Ondaatje and Ghosh draw on ‘epistolary defects’ to pursue a literary material through which to adequately inscribe a subaltern history and to create human histories that ask h

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,Writing to the Future: J.M. Coetzee’s , , (1990),gful concept of futurity, dialogue or truth in contexts governed by incommensurability. Coetzee’s novel is rarely described as an epistolary narrative, but Bower argues that . takes us through the question of how to use European literary tools to write an epistolary narrative in Africa—how to forge

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,The Limits of the Letter: Alice Walker’s , , (1982), version of liberation that its narrative contains. Whilst acknowledging the importance of . as a historical intervention in the field of African American literature, Bower powerfully argues that we should now shift our attention to the question of how far an epistolary narrative can contain the exp

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Conclusion,ter limits: the illiterate, the oral, the dispossessed. Bower argues that new conventions emerge most powerfully at these outer limits, and discusses the future of the epistolary form. The chapter describes the emergent epistolary conventions in the books under consideration, and argues that the epi

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