The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be "topical" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical and psychic trauma of colonial invasion. The purpose of this volume is to qualify the difference one is faced with when a postcolonial ex-centric text is addressed, by collecting essays concerned with writers from Southern Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, the Indian subcontinent and Asian diaspora(s). While giving contextual specifics their due, it shows how the theme of alienation, when perceived through the anamorphic lens of madness, is magnified and charged with an excruciatingly questioning and destabilizing power, laying bare political as well as existential and moral urges. From the ex-centric, broadly exilic position, it is the ideology and practice of colonialism that demand to be rubricated as psychopathology. More broadly, as these essays highlight, in fiction the mad character’s ex-centric vision is a continuous warning against the temptation to believe in those discourses that pass themselves off as reflecting the given, "natural", order of things.
Annalisa Pes & Susanna Zinato
Ex-centric Writing [PDF ebook]
Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction
Ex-centric Writing [PDF ebook]
Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction
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Format PDF ● Pagini 210 ● ISBN 9781443869089 ● Editor Annalisa Pes & Susanna Zinato ● Editura Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● Publicat 2014 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 3499608 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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