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OverviewPostcolonial Naturalism proposes an innovative periodizing schema for historicizing contemporary Anglophone fiction. Engaging and revising the materialist paradigm of the Warwick Research Collective’s concept of “world-literature,” Fredric Jameson’s mapping of modernity’s cultural periods, and Christopher L. Hill’s positing of a transnational naturalism, Eric D. Smith theorizes “postcolonial naturalism” as a structurally determined cultural logic rather than as a literary technique or style. Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important intervention invites us to reconsider the living history of aesthetic naturalism as well as its social and political implications for the practice of world-literature in the aftermath of anticolonial resistance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric D. SmithPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 9781837640508ISBN 10: 1837640505 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 17 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Naturalism, Postcolonialism, and World-Literature Chapter 1. Narrative Desolation and The Impulse-Image in V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas Chapter 2. Neither Us Nor Ours: The Dialectic of Hysteria and the Beautiful Soul in the Novels of Lewis Nkosi Chapter 3. Heredity and Horizon in the Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Rhys, Cliff, and Adiga Chapter 4. Future Perfect and the Impossible Present: Two Faces of Postcolonial Anti-Utopianism Conclusion. Naturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Capital in CrisisReviewsAuthor InformationEric D. Smith is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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