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  title info:
    title: Realism, form and the postcolonial novel
  name:
    name part: Robinette, Nicholas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 79 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, the realist novel has developed in idiosyncratic, heterodox and unruly forms. As many writers have recognized, the elaborate description and assured perspective of a Balzac or Eliot no longer suit the times: how can the description of a banana in a fruit basket tell us anything about the intricacies of conquest and exploitation that carried it halfway across the globe? Thus, the best contemporary realism employs linguistic and formal experimentation in its portrayal. Nicholas Robinette argues that a kind of realist backbeat structures the cacophony of perspectives, moods, philosophical excursions, and linguistic density of novels like Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk and George Lamming's The Emigrants. Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel recovers this underlying realism and shows how the postcolonial novel has employed formal experiment in order to map our social experience. -- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The form of emergence: George Lamming's "The Emigrants" -- Dionysius' ear: Nuruddin Farah's "Sweet and Sour Milk" -- The transsparent state: Zoe Wicomb's "You can't get lost in Cape Town"
  note: Nicholas Robinette.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Realism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism in literature
  classification: PN601 .R63 2014
  classification: 809.912
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    title info:
      title: Palgrave pivot
  identifier: 9781137456083
  identifier: 1137456086
  identifier: 9781137451347 (epub)
  identifier: 9781137451323 (pdf)
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140512
    record change date: 20141106105523.0
    record identifier: in00003508634
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng