Romanticism and aesthetic life in postcolonial writing / Philip Dickinson.

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Romanticism and aesthetic life in postcolonial writing / Philip Dickinson.

9783319703411 (electronic book)
3319703412 (electronic book)
9783319703404
3319703404

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018].

©2018

English

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PR146

820.9145

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically-neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial aesthetics with Romantic ideas about sense, history and world. What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated — but never exhausted — by postcolonial writing.

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