Description: Further DetailsTitle: Postcolonial and Feminist GrotesqueCondition: NewSubtitle: Texts of Contemporary ExcessEAN: 9783034305983ISBN: 9783034305983Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/25/2011Description: Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women’s/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of novelists such as Githa Hariharan, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Coover and Ben Okri, selected to reveal the range and intensity of the grotesque in contemporary fiction through their de/constructions of gender and postcolonial politics. Complementary fields with the grotesque are considered through theorisations of Mary Russo, Julia Kristeva, Martha Reineke, René Girard and other intellectuals. Various literary formulations/frameworks are discussed to supplement views presented in the canonical texts of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser: post-colonial feminine identity/alterity/exoticism; postcolonial national identity; female grotesqueness and animal metamorphosis; abjectification; the principle of sacrificial economy; mythologisations of feminine martyrdom and motherhood; religious and political tyranny associated with imperialism and re-appropriation of carnivalesque-grotesque types in postmodernity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CHItem Height: 220mmItem Length: 150mmItem Weight: 670gAuthor: Maria Sofia Pimentel BiscaiaGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
Title: Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
Subtitle: Texts of Contemporary Excess
EAN: 9783034305983
ISBN: 9783034305983
Release Date: 02/25/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Item Height: 220mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque : Texts of Contemporary Excess
Publisher: Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Modern / General, Semiotics & Theory, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 22.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
