Erik Falk
Department of English, Södertörn University College, Sweden
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Ingår i: NORLIT 2009
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 42:32, s. 399-407
Publicerad: 2010-04-27
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ISSN: 1650-3740 (tryckt), 1650-3686 (online)
With the emergence of globalization studies; world literature; and the spread of postcolonial literature; postcolonial literary studies have come under increased scrutiny as a discipline. One of the key themes in this scrutiny is the relationship between aesthetic and political value. This paper examines two relatively recent critical assessments of this relationship in postcolo-nial literary studies; Graham Huggan’s The Postcolonial Exotic and Sarah Brouillette’s Post-colonial Writers in the Marketplace; and suggests; drawing on Isobel Armstrong’s notion of the “radical aesthetic;” that literary aesthetics may be fruitfully conceived; not as immediately political but “anterior” to (cultural) politics.
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