Affective disorders : emotion in colonial and postcolonial literature /
Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
21. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781786949639 1786949636 1786941708 9781786941701 |