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Ramone, Jenni.

Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplacelocated reading /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplaceby Jenni Ramone.
Reminder of title:	located reading /
Author:	Ramone, Jenni.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2020.
Description:	xiii, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56934-9
ISBN:	9781137569349$q(electronic bk.)

Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplacelocated reading /
Ramone, Jenni.

Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplacelocated reading /[electronic resource] :by Jenni Ramone. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2020. - xiii, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New comparisons in world literature. - New comparisons in world literature..

1. Located Reading: Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace -- 2. Indian Partition Literature. Reading Displacement: Partition Reading Patterns, and Trauma -- 3. Nigeria. Nigerian Literature and/as The Market -- 4. Black Writing in Britain. Going Back to Move Forward: Black Consciousness now and in the archives -- 5. Cuba. Reading and Revolution: Cuban Literature and Literary Culture.

"In this remarkable, stimulating and urgent book, Jenni Ramone superbly underscores the power of reading to contest authority's demands. Insisting upon the local as resistant, unruly and disruptive, Ramone pursues the practice of 'located' reading as both a significant literary preoccupation and a meaningful tool of political consciousness-raising. Rigorously interdisciplinary and persistently ground-breaking, Ramone's study challenges at last the tired cliche that the global literary marketplace has effectively defused postcolonial literatures' dissident designs." - John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK. This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura's Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair's Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo's Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith's Swing Time (2016) Chapters argue that while India's literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer's trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on 'located reading', enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.

ISBN: 9781137569349$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56934-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179038
English literature
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR471 / .R366 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 820.90091

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