Studies in the Novel articles from September 1997

Studies in the Novel archives from September 1997

The reds and the blacks: the historical novel in the Soviet Union and postcolonial Africa.(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... In an important, though highly controversial, article from 1986, Fredric Jameson argues the value to "First-World" intellectuals of close and careful analysis of "Third-World" literature, which for Jameson still has access to certain kinds of...

Caribbean knights: Quijote, Galahad, and the telling of history.(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... On 25 February 1605, "Pedro Gonzalez Refolio presented four crates of books to the Inquisition for its inspection." In one of these, the extant register in Seville's Archivo General de Indias tells us, were "`5 Don quixotte de la mancha.'" The...

Tales of the Alhambra: Rushdie's use of Spanish history in 'The Moor's Last Sigh.' (Salman Rushdie)(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... If history creates complexities, let us not try to simplify them. -Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands I Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh tells the complicated story of four generations of a Christian-Jewish family...

Victim into protagonist? 'Midnight's Children' and the post-Rushdie national narratives of the Eighties. (Salman Rushdie)
September 22, 1997... Midnight's Children as a Breakthrough The 1981 publication of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children was a watershed in the post-independence development of the Indian English novel, so much so that the term "post-Rushdie" has come to...

The backward glance: history and the novel in post-apartheid South Africa.(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... Ever since Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) initiated analysis of the dynamics of decolonization, the postcolonial historical period has been recognized as having crucial links with culture. Fanon argues that the transformative...

Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in 'Things Fall Apart.' (Nigerian author Chinua Achebe)(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... One of the more notable consequences of cultural globalization has been the exchange that has occurred over the last decade or so between what we have come to call postmodernism and postcolonialism.(1) This meeting of First World and Third...

Prizing "otherness": a short history of the Booker. (Booker Prize)(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
September 22, 1997... Introduction: Postcoloniality, Exoticism, and the Politics of Value [V]alue is always `transitive'--that is to say, value for somebody in a particular situation--and... always culturally and historically specific. (Terry Eagleton,...