The Postcolonial Exotic - Marketing the Margins

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.

List of contents

Preface, 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, Notes, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Graham Huggan

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Huggan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2001
• EAN: 9780415250337
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25033-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 800 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature