Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance

By Filippo Menozzi

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our understanding of this through the concept of custodianship - a responsibility towards the other in forms of cultural and literary inheritance. The author introduces custodianship as a central theme and vital question for the committed intellectual, proposing new interpretations of postcolonial texts by key figures such as Anita Desai, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415735653
• ISBN13: 9780415735650
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"