@article{940685,
      recid = {940685},
      author = {Ramone, Jenni.},
      title = {Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace  : located reading /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {London, United Kingdom :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {"In this remarkable, stimulating and urgent book, Jenni  Ramone superbly underscores the power of reading to contest  authoritys demands. Insisting upon the local as resistant,  unruly and disruptive, Ramone pursues the practice of  'located reading as both a significant literary  preoccupation and a meaningful tool of political  consciousness-raising. Rigorously interdisciplinary and  persistently ground-breaking, Ramones study challenges at  last the tired cliche that the global literary marketplace  has effectively defused postcolonial literatures dissident  designs." - John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK. This book  asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and  Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from  postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic,  materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It  contextualises these close readings through new  interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert  the significance of local, not global meanings. The book  offers longer case studies on novels that stage important  reading moments: Alejo Carpentiers The Lost Steps (1953),  Leonardo Paduras Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khairs  Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzos Welcome to Lagos (2017),  and Zadie Smiths Swing Time (2016). Chapters argue that  while Indias literary market was disrupted by Partition,  literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in  post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to  exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts  that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market  hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade,  including the writers trade; while Black consciousness  bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the  UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is  a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and  creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It  insists on 'located reading, enabling close reading of  world literature s sited in their local materialities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/940685},
}