Colonialism and literature : an affective narratology / Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Patrick Colm, author.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative. http://viaf.org/viaf/179152208

Frontiers of Narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Critiques litteraires.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages, 15 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024].

Summary:

"In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genres--heroic, romantic, sacrificial, and others--recur prominently across separate literary traditions. These structures recur because they derive from important emotion-motivation systems governing human social interaction, such as group pride and shame. In Colonialism and Literature Hogan extends this work to argue that these genres play a prominent role in the fashioning of postcolonization literature--literature encompassing both the colonial and postcolonial periods. Crucially, colonizers and colonized people commonly understand and explain their situation in terms of these narrative structures. In other words, the stories we tell to some degree simply reflect the facts. But we also tend to interpret our condition in terms of genre, with the genre guiding us about what to record and how to evaluate it. Hogan explores these consequential processes in theoretical and literary analysis, presenting extended, culturally and historically specified interpretations of works by Pádraic Pearse (Ireland), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Yasujiro Ozu (Japan), J. M. Coetzee (South Africa), Margaret Atwood (Canada), Rabindranath Tagore (India), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mali), and Dinabandhu Mitra (India)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Imperialism and Its Stories

Chapter 1: Colonialism, Emotions, and Narrative

Chapter 2: Idealized Sacrifice: Pádraic Pearse, Attachment Love, and the 1916 Easter Uprising

Chapter 3: Ambivalent Sacrifice and Allegorical Love: Shame and Desire in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat

Chapter 4: Family Separation and Reunion: Attachment and Mirth in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Summer

Chapter 5: Disfigured Heroism and the Possibility of Romance: War and Love in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

Chapter 6: Allegory and the Heroic Epilogue: Guilt and Disfigured Genres in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

Chapter 7: Minor Genres: Revenge in Rabindranath Tagore's "Punishment," Crime in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako, and Seduction in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror

Afterword: A Note on the Psychology of Stories and the Psychology of Colonialism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and literature

ISBN:

9781496241702

1496241703

9781496241696

149624169X

OCLC:

1440045335