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Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque

Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia

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  • 456 sidor
  • 2011
Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and womens/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of novelists such as Githa Hariharan, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Robert Coover and Ben Okri, selected to reveal the range and intensity of the grotesque in contemporary fiction through their de/constructions of gender and postcolonial politics. Complementary fields with the grotesque are considered through theorisations of Mary Russo, Julia Kristeva, Martha Reineke, Ren Girard and other intellectuals. Various literary formulations/frameworks are discussed to supplement views presented in the canonical texts of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser: post-colonial feminine identity/alterity/exoticism; postcolonial national identity; female grotesqueness and animal metamorphosis; abjectification; the principle of sacrificial economy; mythologisations of feminine martyrdom and motherhood; religious and political tyranny associated with imperialism and re-appropriation of carnivalesque-grotesque types in postmodernity.
  • Författare: Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783034305983
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 456
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-02-25
  • Förlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften