Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Postcolonial Exotic : marketing the margins

By: Huggan, Graham.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London Routledge 2001Description: xvi,328 p. 21 cm.ISBN: 9780415250344.Subject(s): Commonwealth | English fiction -- History and criticism | English literature -- Appreciation -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century | Postcolonialism -- English-speaking countries | Postcolonialism in literature | Commonwealth fiction (English) English fiction | English fiction -- Minority authors | Ethnic groups in literature | Exoticism in literature | Fiction -- AppreciationDDC classification: 823 Summary: Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?" "In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption."--BOOK JACKET.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Item type Current location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books 823 HUG (Browse shelf) Available 031551

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?" "In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption."--BOOK JACKET.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.

Powered by Koha