The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins / Graham Huggan.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: xvi, 328 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0415250331 (hb : alk. paper)
- 041525034X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- English fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Fiction -- Appreciation -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
- Fiction -- Publishing -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 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
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- PR120.M55 H84 2001
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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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