Decolonizing the Literary Imagination: Dialogue and the Postcolonial Encounter (New Comparative Criticism)

by: Ambra Guaieri (Author)

Publisher: Peter Lang

Publication Date: 2024/5/9

Language: English

Print Length: 262 pages

ISBN-10: 1800797001

ISBN-13: 9781800797000

Book Description

This book explores the notion of dialogue adapted from Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical methodology for interpreting the postcolonial encounter. The study explores dialogue in works of literature and ethnography by authors as diverse as Laura Bohannan, Ryszard Kapuściński, Amitav Ghosh, V.S. Naipaul, and Zadie Smith.

About the Author

This book explores the notion of dialogue adapted from Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical methodology for interpreting the postcolonial encounter. The study explores dialogue in works of literature and ethnography by authors as diverse as Laura Bohannan, Ryszard Kapuściński, Amitav Ghosh, V.S. Naipaul, and Zadie Smith.