| 书目名称 | Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel | | 副标题 | Literatures of Preca | | 编辑 | Jens Elze | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers the first comprehensive study not only of the postcolonial picaresque novel, but of the picaresque novel in any of its contemporary forms.Looks at key postcolonial novels by authors such as V.S | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the .bildungsroman., is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for this book. What is especially significant in comparison to other forms of postcolonial (post)modernism is that the picaresque does not offer a general critique of a project of modernity, but through its persistent precarity points to the paradoxical logics of capitalism, which are especially nuanced under the conditions of neo-imperialism and neoliberalism. The book features texts by established postcolonial authors such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul, but especially focu | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Capitalism; Neoliberalism; Economics; Global; Imperialism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51938-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-84783-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-51938-8 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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