Textual traffic
colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text
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Author
Publication
2001 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetextualtrafficco0000shan
- ISBN-100791449912
- ISBN-100791449920
- ISBN-139780791449912
- ISBN-139780791449929
and 7 more
- LibraryThing3360956
- Goodreads3719948', '2026465
- Library of Congress Control Number00058791
- OCLC Control Number44632989
- Better World Books9780791449929
- Better World Books9780791449912
- Open LibraryOL6792898M
Classifications
- DDC810.9/355
- LCCPS366.T73 S53 2001
- LCCPS366.T73S53 2001
Description
"In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre.". "Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives - African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic - drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
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