Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine and Retranslate - Couverture souple

Menon, Nirmala

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349711357 ISBN 13 : 9781349711352

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian literature in theory, and the inadequacy of generalizing postcolonial experiences and subjectivities based on literature produced in one language (English). It argues that, while postcolonial scholarship has successfully challenged Eurocentrism, it is now time to extend the dimensions beyond Anglophone and Francophone literatures to include literatures in other languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Tagalog, and Swahili.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nirmala Menon is Professor of Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Her research spans postcolonial literature and theory, digital humanities and translation studies, and open access academic publishing in India. Her most recent publications include Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (edited with Marika Preziuso, 2014). She has published her work in international journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is on the advisory board of Open Library for the Humanities (OLH), and is an executive member of MLA's CLCS Global South Forum and its Chairperson for 2016-17.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349711357
• ISBN 13: 9781349711352
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 216
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