Decolonizing the Literary Imagination: Dialogue and the Postcolonial Encounter (Paperback)

Contents: Understanding Colonial Discourse: Following in the Footsteps of Spivak, Lazarus, Baer, and Majumder, and the Acknowledgement of the Politics of Capitalism ? Sketching Bakhtin, Dialogism, and Genres, through Close and Distant Reading ? Return to Laughter: Novelizing a Classical Ethnography ? Cultural Identity, Performativity, and the Space of the Postcolonial Nation in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land ? Unveiling the Ideological Perimeter of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski’s The Shadow of the Sun ? Dialogical Reverberations across V.S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness and The Mimic Men and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and NW.