🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£40.08
RRP: £46.99
Save £6.91 (15%)
Printed on Demand
Dispatched within 7-9 working days.

Postcolonial Custodianship

Cultural and Literary Inheritance. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

By (author) Filippo Menozzi
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Published: 6th Feb 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN-10: 1138547468
ISBN-13: 9781138547469
Barcode No: 9781138547469
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our understanding of this topic through the concept of custodianship, which may be defined as a responsibility towards the other in forms of cultural and literary inheritance. The author introduces custodianship as a central theme and a vital question for the committed intellectual today, proposing original interpretations of major postcolonial texts by key figures including Anita Desai, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy. Through close reading and historical analysis, Postcolonial Custodianship reveals that a practice of custodianship has always been an essential element of these writers' ethical engagement, yet in a way that has never been explored. The author contends that the question of custodianship should not be seen as a merely negative designation; it is by redefining the very meaning of custodianship that the ethical dimension of postcolonialism can be rediscovered.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£40.08
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
"An absorbing and thoughtful study of the ethics of postcolonial intellectualism, superbly researched and subtly argued." - Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick, UK