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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Graham Huggan |
| ISBN: | 0415250331 9780415250337 041525034X 9780415250344 |
| OCLC Number: | 45166628 |
| Description: | xvi, 328 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value -- 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic -- 2. Consuming India -- 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi -- 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker -- 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy -- 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity -- 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction -- 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity -- Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium. |
| Responsibility: | Graham Huggan. |
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Abstract:
Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.
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