Textual traffic : colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text

著者

    • Shankar, Subramanian

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Textual traffic : colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text

S. Shankar

(SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies)

State University of New York Press, c2001

  • : hbk., alk. paper
  • : pbk., alk. paper

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注記

Bibliography: p. 201-215

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre. Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives—African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic—drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

目次

Acknowledgments Preface: Colonial Modernity, Textual Economics, and Travel Narratives PART I: PROLOGUE TO AN ARGUMENT 1. Introduction: Textual Economics, the Modern, and the Postmodern 2. Travel Narratives and Gulliver's Travels PART II: COLONIALISM AND MODERNITY 3. Into Darkness and Out of It 4. Wright and Wrong in a Land of Pathos 5. V.S. Naipaul, Modernity, and Postcolonial Excrement Notes Bibliography Index SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

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