TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sorensen,Eli Park
TI  - Postcolonial studies and the literary: theory, interpretation and the novel 
SN  - 9780230252622
AV  - PR9084 .S65 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Basingstoke [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Sembène, Ousmane,
KW  - Coetzee, J. M.,
KW  - Mistry, Rohinton,
KW  - Commonwealth fiction (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The melancholia of postcolonial studies -- Returning to the literary -- Utopian-interpretive trajectories -- Form and temporality in Ousmane Sembène's Xala -- Arcades of foreignness : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Realism in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance
N2  - "Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalisation in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text"--
ER  -