Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text - Couverture souple

Shankar, S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791449920 ISBN 13 : 9780791449929

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Examines travel narratives as a genre.

In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre.

Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives-African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic-drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

S. Shankar is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of the acclaimed novel, A Map of Where I Live.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791449920
• ISBN 13: 9780791449929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243
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