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Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures
- Title
- Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures / Inder Sidhu.
- Author
- Sidhu, Inder, 1960-
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- ix, 167 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors across the colonial, postwar and post-9/11 eras - Olaudah Equiano, Sake Dean Mahomet, Henry Callaway, R.C. Temple, Amos Tutuola, G.V. Desani, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Aravind Adiga - in order to map different strategies of selfhood across four fields of literature: autobiographical life writing, folk anthology, postwar fabulism, and contemporary realism. Drawing on historical analysis, psychological inquiry, comparative linguistics, postcolonial criticism and social theory, this book responds to a renewed emphasis on the narrative strategies and creative choices involved in a literary construction of the self. Threaded through this investigation is an analysis of the effects of globalization, or the intensification of intercultural and dialogic complexity over time." --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 23-8311
- ISBN
- 3031276043
- 9783031276040
- OCLC
- 1369291341
- Author
- Sidhu, Inder, 1960- author.
- Title
- Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures / Inder Sidhu.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783031276057
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 23-8311