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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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Main Author:	Majumdar, Saikat (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024].
Subjects:	Literature > Study and teaching. Humanities > Study and teaching. Criticism > Study and teaching. Learning and scholarship. Amateurism. South Asia > Intellectual life. Caribbean Area > Intellectual life. Africa > Intellectual life.

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