{"product_id":"postcolonial-realism-and-the-concept-of-the-political-paperback","title":"Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEli Park Sorensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse; in other words-incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of 'the people, ' often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances, and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent.　\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEli Park Sorensen\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Dr. Sorensen's publications include \u003cem\u003eScience Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and \u003cem\u003ePostcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published in journals such as \u003cem\u003eNOVEL: A Forum on Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Narrative Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParagraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern Drama, Research in African Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eExplicator\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePartial Answers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eForum for Modern Language Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStudies in Canadian Literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52622194311475,"sku":"9780367650803","price":100.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SEMwemRQSGxyd2dyRFZON1NOay9XQT09.webp?v=1761965901","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/postcolonial-realism-and-the-concept-of-the-political-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}