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What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon - Mukherjee, Ankhi
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What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book ...

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What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon 2014, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804795258

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What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon 2013, Stanford University Press

ISBN-13: 9780804785211

Hardcover