Postcolonial Poetics
Genre and Form
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
279 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2011
Responding to calls to focus on postcolonial literature’s literary qualities instead of merely its political content, this volume investigates the idiosyncrasies of postcolonial poetics. However, rather than privileging the literary at the expense of the political, the essays collected here analyze how texts use genre and form to offer multiple and distinct ways of responding to political and historical questions. By probing how different kinds of literary writing can blur with other discourses, the contributors offer key insights into postcolonial literature’s power to imagine alternative identities and societies.
Contents
Preface
Dominique Combe
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Hiddleston
Literary Form and the Politics of Interpretation
‘New World’ Exiles and Ironists from Évariste Parny to Ananda Devi
Françoise Lionnet
‘… without losing sight of the whole’: Said and Goethe
Matthias Zach
Metaphorical Memories: Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent
Nicholas Harrison
Playing the Field/Performing ‘the Personal’ in Maryse Condé’s Interviews
Eva Sansavior
Writing Subjectivity, Crossing Borders
A Concern Peculiar to Western Man? Postcolonial Reconsiderations of Autobiography as Genre
Bart Moore-Gilbert
Still Besieged by Voices: Djebar’s Poetics of the Threshold
Clarisse Zimra
Algerian Letters: Mixture, Genres, Literature Itself
Patrick Crowley
How to Speak about It? Kateb Yacine’s Feminine Voice or Literature’s Wager: A Reading of Nedjma
Mireille Calle-Gruber (Translated by Jane Hiddleston)
The Rise of the récit d’enfance in the Francophone Caribbean
Louise Hardwick
Reinventing the Legacies of Genre
The Tragedy of Decolonization: Dialectics at a Standstill
Martin Mégevand
J. M. Coetzee’s Australian Realism
Elleke Boehmer
Ambivalence and Ambiguity of the Short Story in Albert Camus’s ‘L’Hôte’ and Mohammed Dib’s ‘La Fin’
Andy Stafford
Writing against Genocide: Genres of Opposition in Narratives from and about Rwanda
Zoë Norridge
Notes on Contributors
Index
Dominique Combe
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Hiddleston
Literary Form and the Politics of Interpretation
‘New World’ Exiles and Ironists from Évariste Parny to Ananda Devi
Françoise Lionnet
‘… without losing sight of the whole’: Said and Goethe
Matthias Zach
Metaphorical Memories: Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent
Nicholas Harrison
Playing the Field/Performing ‘the Personal’ in Maryse Condé’s Interviews
Eva Sansavior
Writing Subjectivity, Crossing Borders
A Concern Peculiar to Western Man? Postcolonial Reconsiderations of Autobiography as Genre
Bart Moore-Gilbert
Still Besieged by Voices: Djebar’s Poetics of the Threshold
Clarisse Zimra
Algerian Letters: Mixture, Genres, Literature Itself
Patrick Crowley
How to Speak about It? Kateb Yacine’s Feminine Voice or Literature’s Wager: A Reading of Nedjma
Mireille Calle-Gruber (Translated by Jane Hiddleston)
The Rise of the récit d’enfance in the Francophone Caribbean
Louise Hardwick
Reinventing the Legacies of Genre
The Tragedy of Decolonization: Dialectics at a Standstill
Martin Mégevand
J. M. Coetzee’s Australian Realism
Elleke Boehmer
Ambivalence and Ambiguity of the Short Story in Albert Camus’s ‘L’Hôte’ and Mohammed Dib’s ‘La Fin’
Andy Stafford
Writing against Genocide: Genres of Opposition in Narratives from and about Rwanda
Zoë Norridge
Notes on Contributors
Index
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