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Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

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Preface, Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value, 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic, 2. Consuming India, 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi, 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker, 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy, 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity, 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction, 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity, Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium, Notes, Bibliography, Index

The Postcolonial Exotic Marketing the Margins

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
      Published 3/15/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780415250344
      978-0415250344
      ISBN-10 041525034X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: postcolonial literature National liberation and independence Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

      Table of Contents
      Preface, Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value, 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic, 2. Consuming India, 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi, 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker, 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy, 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity, 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction, 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity, Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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