
Decolonizing the Literary Imagination
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What do we mean by 'dialogue'? What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author's production?
This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical methodology for interpreting the East-West postcolonial encounter. His concept is further complicated by issues of race, gender, class, nationality, and ethnic and religious identity that proliferate in such contexts and serves to reconfigure the power dynamics that characterize these encounters.
This study explores dialogue in a selection of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century ethnography, fiction, and travel writing by authors as diverse as Laura Bohannan, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Amitav Ghosh, V. S. Naipaul, and Zadie Smith, set in Africa, India, and Europe. These dialogues are viewed through the lenses of phenomenology, history, the philosophy of language, and postcolonial theory. The book also explores how these writing genres have evolved over time in correspondence with crucial historical transitions.
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Ambra Guarnieri holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Philosophy and the History of Ideas from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an MA in International Journalism from City University of London, and a PhD from the SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies. She is working on a play, a collection of poetry, and a postmodern novel.
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Contents: Understanding Colonial Discourse: Following in the Footsteps of Spivak, Lazarus, Baer, and Majumder, and the Acknowledgement of the Politics of Capitalism - Sketching Bakhtin, Dialogism, and Genres, through Close and Distant Reading - Return to Laughter: Novelizing a Classical Ethnography - Cultural Identity, Performativity, and the Space of the Postcolonial Nation in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land - Unveiling the Ideological Perimeter of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun - Dialogical Reverberations across V.S. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness and The Mimic Men and Zadie Smith's White Teeth and NW.
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