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Author Menozzi, Filippo

Title Postcolonial custodianship : cultural and literary inheritance / Filippo Menozzi
Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages .)
Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 50
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 50.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism -- India
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Indic literature (English)
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature
Englisch
Literatur
Postkolonialismus
India
Indien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315818849
1315818841