Ebook: The long space : transnationalism and postcolonial form
Author: Djebar Assia, Djebar Assia, Farah Nuruddin, Harris Wilson, Toer Pramoedya Ananta, Farah Nuruddin, Harris Wilson, Hitchcock Peter, Toer Pramoedya Ananta, Djebar Assia
- Tags: Harris Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation. Farah Nuruddin -- 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation. Toer Pramoedya Ananta -- 1925-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation. Djebar Assia -- 1936-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation. Postcolonialism in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Space and time in literature. Literature Modern -- Histor
- Series: Cultural memory in the present
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Stanford, Calif
- Language: English
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The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native information globally? The Long Space provides a fresh look at the importance of postcolonial writing by examining how it articulates history and place both in content and form. Not only does it offer a new theoretical model for understanding decolonization's impact on duration in writing, but through a series of case studies of Guyanese, Somali, Indonesian, and Algerian writers, it urges a more protracted engagement with time and space in postcolonial narrative. Although each writer—Wilson Harris, Nuruddin Farah, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Assia Djebar—explores a unique understanding of postcoloniality, each also makes a more general assertion about the difference of time and space in decolonization. Taken together, they herald a transnationalism beyond the contaminated coordinates of globalization as currently construed.
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