Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace: Located Reading

by Jenni Ramone

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137569336
• ISBN13: 9781137569332
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"