The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins /
Huggan, Graham, 1958-
The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins / Graham Huggan. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. - xvi, 328 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter Introduction--Writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value--chapter 1 African literature and the anthropological exotic--chapter 2 Consuming India--chapter 3 Staged marginalities--Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi--chapter 4 Prizing otherness--A short history of the Booker--chapter 5 Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy--chapter 6 Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity--chapter 7 Transformations of the tourist gaze--Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction--chapter 8 Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity.
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00045937
English fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Fiction--Appreciation--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.
Fiction--Publishing--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism--English-speaking countries.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Booker Prize--History.
Canon (Literature)
Postcolonialism.
PR120.M55 / H84 2001
823/.91409
The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins / Graham Huggan. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. - xvi, 328 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter Introduction--Writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value--chapter 1 African literature and the anthropological exotic--chapter 2 Consuming India--chapter 3 Staged marginalities--Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi--chapter 4 Prizing otherness--A short history of the Booker--chapter 5 Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy--chapter 6 Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity--chapter 7 Transformations of the tourist gaze--Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction--chapter 8 Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity.
0415250331 (hb : alk. paper) 041525034X (pbk. : alk. paper)
00045937
English fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Fiction--Appreciation--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.
Fiction--Publishing--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism--English-speaking countries.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Booker Prize--History.
Canon (Literature)
Postcolonialism.
PR120.M55 / H84 2001
823/.91409