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The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh - Literary Cultures of the Global South Sneharika Roy 1st edition
The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh - Literary Cultures of the Global South
Sneharika Roy
This 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 Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asi
208 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 12, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367890438 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 312 × 154 × 14 mm · 296 g |
| Language | English |