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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered

Author : Peter Hitchcock

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Abstract

This chapter considers the role of fiction in continuing the work of decolonization. It problematizes this relationship in several ways by, for instance, invoking the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin on the concept of novelization, examining Edward Said’s critique of orientalism, and rethinking the tensions between postcolonialism and globalization as currently construed. The fate of the nation, nationhood, and nationalism is a significant subtext of the analysis and is particularly informative regarding the literary examples provided: Giannina Braschi’s (United States of Banana. Amazon Crossing, Las Vegas, 2011) and Susan Abulhawa’s (Mornings in Jenin. Bloomsbury, New York, 2006). These novels do not exemplify a solution to the dilemmas of the state that decolonization faces, but they do accentuate the role of imagination in such struggle and the ways it may be inscribed.

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Metadata
Title
Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered
Author
Peter Hitchcock
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Other Globes

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-14979-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14980-2

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_9