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Brian T. May

Extravagant Postcolonialism

Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988

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Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These extravagant postcolonial works focus less on collective social reality than on the intimate subjectivity of their characters. Their authors, most of whom received some portion of a canonical western education, do not subordinate the ambitions of their fiction to explicit political causes, but they do create a cosmopolitan rhetorical focus suitable to their well-educated, western trained, audiences.May pursues this argument by… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61117-380-2
  • EAN: 9781611173802
  • Produktnummer: 22119504
  • Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'660 KB

Über den Autor


Brian T. May, an associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University, has published on Edwardian, modernist, and postcolonial literature in such journals as ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Twentieth Century Literature, and Contemporary Literature. The editor of a special issue of Studies in the Novel entitled Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel, May is also the author of The Modernist as Pragmatist: E. M. Forster and the Fate of Liberalism.

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