POSTCOLONIAL MODERNISM AND THE PICARESQUE NOVEL.
ELZE, JENS.
2017
PQ6147.P5
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Title POSTCOLONIAL MODERNISM AND THE PICARESQUE NOVEL.
Author ELZE, JENS.
Edition 1ST ed. 2017.
ISBN 9783319519388 (electronic book)
3319519387 (electronic book)
3319519379
9783319519371
Publication Details [Place of publication not identified] : SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number PQ6147.P5
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.3/877
Summary 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 focuses on the more recent proliferation of the genre in works by Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid and Indra Sinha. .
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Introduction
1. Biography
2. Style
3. Identity
4. Narration
5. Abjection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

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