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Moving beyond the postcolonial literature field's traditional focus on the novel, this book shines a light on the "minor" genres in which postcolonial issues are also explored. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
List of contents
Introduction – "Minor" genres in postcolonial literatures: New webs of meaning 1. "The advent of a genre": Crime fiction and the state of the nation in South Africa 2. From Jay to Bee to Daughter Buffalo: Outlining ekphrasis in the work of Janet Frame 3. Radio drama and its avatars in the work of Caryl Phillips 4. The tremors of genre in G.J. Resink’s poetry 5. "Keeping my slave side well versed": Fred D’Aguiar’s use of ottava rima in Bloodlines 6. The danger of a single short story: Reality, fiction and metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s "Jumping Monkey Hill" 7. Twisting the Australian realist short story: Murray Bail’s "Camouflage" 8. Minor genres and marginal realities: Kei Miller’s blog posts and Facebook notes 9. Claiming a hybrid language, seeking a hybrid form: From the vernacular to digital media in Robert Antoni’s As Flies to Whatless Boys (2013)
About the author
Delphine Munos is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Bénédicte Ledent is a Professor of English at the University of Liège, Belgium, and is codirector of the Postcolonial Research Group CEREP.
Summary
Moving beyond the postcolonial literature field’s traditional focus on the novel, this book shines a light on the "minor" genres in which postcolonial issues are also explored. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
