Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel

by Eric D. Smith

Postcolonial Naturalism proposes an innovative periodizing schema for historicizing contemporary Anglophone fiction. Engaging and revising the materialist paradigm of the Warwick Research Collective's concept of "world-literature," Fredric Jameson's mapping of modernity's cultural periods, and Christopher L. Hill's positing of a transnational naturalism, Eric D. Smith theorizes "postcolonial naturalism" as a structurally determined cultural logic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837640505
• ISBN13: 9781837640508
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"