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02982aam a2200361 i 4500 001 573CB27AF4E911EBA186761358ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210804010022 008 210204s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2020053756 020 $a 0367650789 020 $a 9780367650780 035 $a (OCoLC)1223011721 040 $a YUS $b eng $e rda $c YUS $d DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56 R3 P67 2021 100 1 $a Sorensen, Eli Park, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / $c Eli Park Sorensen. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 196 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature 520 $a "As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies have either ignored realism or criticized it as being naiÌve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse, in other words - incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people,' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979- $t Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 $z 9781003127741 $w (DLC) 2020053757 830 0 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004012337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=573CB27AF4E911EBA186761358ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search