Pub Date: October 23, 2012
Dewey: 808.31
LCCN: 2012036831
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.50" L x 5.60" W ( 0.80 lbs) 227 pages
BISAC Categories:
Literary Criticism | African | American | General | English Irish Scottish Welsh | Asian | Short Stories | Modern | 20th Century | Semiotics and Theory | European
Description: This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
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