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What is a classic? : postcolonial rewriting and invention of the canon / Ankhi Mukherjee ; editor, Hent de Vries.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mukherjee, Ankhi.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Canon (Literature).
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in 20th and 21st century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Question of the Classic
- Part 2. Repetition, Invention
- Postscript: The Why of the What
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804788380
- 0804788383
- OCLC:
- 861559380
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