THE POSTCOLONIAL EXOTIC by Graham Huggan ( 9780415250337 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE POSTCOLONIAL EXOTIC
MARKETING THE MARGINS

By:

Graham Huggan

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415250331

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9780415250337

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

15 March, 2001

Pages:

348

Description:

Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

Synopsis:

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. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

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Routledge

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