{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-epic-from-melville-to-walcott-and-ghosh","title":"Postcolonial Epic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece \u003ci\u003eOmeros \u003c\/i\u003eand Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the \u003ci\u003eIbis \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work focuses on the epic genre’s rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North\/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North\/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of ‘political epic’, where an avowed national politics promoting a culture’s ‘pure’ origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from ‘other’ cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54176296403288,"sku":null,"price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138063631_ef5f5bac-7854-4941-82d2-f174acf65653.jpg?v=1778732165","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-epic-from-melville-to-walcott-and-ghosh","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}