{"product_id":"critique-and-utopia-in-postcolonial-historical-fiction-atlantic-and-other-worlds-9780198830436","title":"Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds","description":"This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present. It shows how the genre's treatment of colonialism illustrates continuities between the colonial era and our own\u003cbr\u003eand how the genre distils from our colonial pasts the evanescent, utopian intimations of a properly postcolonial future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e arrives at these insights by juxtaposing novels from the Atlantic world with books from the Indian subcontinent. Attending to the links across these regions, the volume develops luminous readings of novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, J. G. Farrell, \u003cbr\u003eAmitav Ghosh, Marlon James, Hari Kunzru, Toni Morrison, Marlene van Niekerk, Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, and Barry Unsworth. It shows how these works not only transform our understanding of the colonial past and the futures that might issue from it, but also contribute to pressing debates in\u003cbr\u003epostcolonial theory--debates about the politics of literary forms, the links between cycles of capital accumulation and the emergence of new genres, the meaning of 'working through' traumas in the postcolonial context, the relationship between colonial and panoptical power, the continued salience of\u003cbr\u003ehybridity and mimicry for the study of colonialism, and the tension between national liberation struggles and transnational forms of solidarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautifully written and meticulously theorized, \u003cem\u003eCritique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to students of world literature, Marxist critics, postcolonial theorists, and thinkers of the utopian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Forter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198830436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreg Forter, \u003cem\u003eProfessor in the Department of English, University of South Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreg Forter is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of two books, \u003cem\u003eMurdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel\u003c\/em\u003e (New York UP, 2000) and \u003cem\u003eGender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge UP, 2011). He has also\u003cbr\u003epublished articles on American literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender and feminist studies, and postcolonial studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932115517555,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7be64886-f72b-4556-8a40-8e00a182d011.jpg?v=1647790403","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/critique-and-utopia-in-postcolonial-historical-fiction-atlantic-and-other-worlds-9780198830436","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}