Postcolonial writers in the global literary marketplace
[Book]
Sarah Brouillette.
Basingstoke [England] ; New York
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
(vi, 206 pages)
The industry of postcoloniality -- Postcolonial writers and the global literary marketplace -- Salman Rushdie's 'unbelonging' : authorship and 'the East' -- Locating J.M. Coetzee -- Zulfikar Ghose and cosmopolitan authentication.
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace considers some of the market conditions that have framed the emergence of English-language postcolonial literatures, and suggests modifications to existing accounts of how a writer's marginality is experienced by consumers of postcolonial texts. Arguing that the incorporation of writers who are marketed as postcolonial has been crucial to global expansion and"Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace considers some of the market conditions that have framed the emergence of English-language postcolonial literatures, and suggests modifications to existing accounts of how a writer's marginality is experienced by consumers of postcolonial texts. Arguing that the incorporation of writers who are marketed as postcolonial has been crucial to global expansion and"Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace considers some of the market conditions that have framed the emergence of English-language postcolonial literatures, and suggests modifications to existing accounts of how a writer's marginality is experienced by consumers of postcolonial texts. Arguing that the incorporation of writers who are marketed as postcolonial has been crucial to global expansion and",,,,,"Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.Read less
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