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Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation

Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation


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Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such "third-world intellectuals" often find themselves torn between the competing literary requirements of the "local" culture of the colony and the cosmopolitan, "world" culture introduced by Western civilization. Imre Szeman examines the complex relationship between literature and politics by exploring the production of nationalist literature in the former British empire. Taking as his case studies the regions of the British Caribbean, Nigeria and Canada, Szeman analyzes the work of authors for whom the idea of the "nation" and literature are inexorably entwined, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon and V.S. Naipaul. Szeman focuses on literature created in the two decades after World War II, decades in which the future prospects for many colonies went from extreme political optimism to extreme political disappointment. He finds that the "nation" can be read as that space in which literature is thought to be able to conjoin two things that history has separated - the writer and the people.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Politics of Postcolonial Nationalist Literature
1. The Nation as Problem and Possibility
2. Caribbean Space: Lamming, Naipaul, and Federation
3. The Novel after the Nation: Nigeria after Biafra
4. The Persistence of the Nation: Literature and Criticism in Canada
Conclusion: National Culture and Globalization
Notes
Index



About the Author :
Imre Szeman is an associate professor of English at McMaster University.

Review :
Szeman speaks softly (and subtly), but as a leading-edge theorist of postcolonial literature and cultural studies he has earned the intellectual authority that underlies the present bold project. Choice Offers an interesting and valuable argument. -- Chelva Kanaganayakam University of Toronto Quarterly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801868030
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 458 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801868033
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation
  • Width: 152 mm


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