The amateur : self-making and the humanities in the postcolony /
Saikat Majumdar examines a range of south Asian, Caribbean and African writers, C.L.R. James, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, Dionne Brand, Jamaica Kincaid, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy, along with several others, who emerge from their engagement with poor and provincial colonial...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Saikat Majumdar examines a range of south Asian, Caribbean and African writers, C.L.R. James, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, Dionne Brand, Jamaica Kincaid, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy, along with several others, who emerge from their engagement with poor and provincial colonial and postcolonial educational systems as amateur intellectuals of wide public appeal. Central to this identity is the practice "poor reading", which captures the reading process of the disenfranchised reader who, located far from the original, usually metropolitan, context of the text, is singularly ill-equipped for the various modes of historical and contextualist reading that professional literary scholarship enshrines today. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 218 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501399862 1501399861 9781501399879 150139987X |