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Titre(s) : Postcolonial audiences [Texte imprimé] : readers, viewers and reception / edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2012
Description matérielle : xvi, 264 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 37
Lien à la collection : Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Comprend : Part 1: Real Readers/Actual Audiences. The politics of postcolonial laughter: the
international reception of the New Zealand animated comedy series bro'Town / Michelle
Keown ; That's maybe where I come from but that's not how I read: Diaspora, Location
and Reading Identities / Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson ; "Bollywood"
adolescents: young viewers discuss class, representation and Hindi films / Shakuntala
BanajiII. ; Part 2: Readers and Publishers. Does the North Read the South? The international
reception of South African scholarly texts / Elizabeth Le Roux ; William Plomer reading:
The publisher's reader at Jonathan Cape / Gail Low ; Too much Rushdie, not enough
Romance?: The UK publishing industry and BME (Black Minority Ethnic) readership /
Claire Squires. ; Part 3: Reading in Representation. Rushdie's hero as audience -
interpreting India through Indian popular cinema / Florian Stadtler ; The "New" India
and the politics of reading in Pankaj Mishra's Butter Chicken in / Ludhiana Lucienne
Loh ; Local and global reading communities in Robert Antoni's My Grandmother's Erotic
Folktales / Lucy Evans. ; Part 4: Reading and Nationalism. Reading gender and social
reform in the Indian Social Reformer / Srila Nayak ; Reading After Terror: The Reluctant
Fundamentalist and First-World Allegory / Neelam Srivastava ; "Macaulay's Children":
Thomas Babington Macaulay and the imperialism of reading in India / Katie Halsey.
; Part 5: Reading and Postcolonial Ethics. Theorising postcolonial reception: writing,
reading, and moral agency in the Satanic Verses affair / Daniel Allington ; Reading
before the Law: Melville's 'Bartleby' and Asylum Seeker Narratives / David Farrier
; Sympathetic shame in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year / Katherine
Hallemeier ; Responsible Reading and Cultural Difference / Derek Attridge.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally
unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of
reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making
during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims
for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political
consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as
an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies
persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a
distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception
studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers
and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of
our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial - from the notion of reading
as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading."--Publisher's website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Benwell, Bethan. Éditeur scientifique
Procter, James (1971-....). Éditeur scientifique
Robinson, Gemma. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Littérature postcoloniale -- Appréciation
Littérature anglophone
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415888714 (hbk.). - ISBN 0415888719 (hbk.). - ISBN 9780203126165. - ISBN
0203126165
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43651313c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43651313
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