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Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)
Rapael Dalleo
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Description for Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)
Hardcover. Demonstrates the ways post colonial studies has adapted Bourdieu's sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of postcolonialism as a field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and more. Editor(s): Dalleo, Raphael. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations, Black and White. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting texts that pioneered this approach—by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie, and Sarah Brouillette—as well as emerging scholarship that follows the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired work examines the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of the ... Read more
Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting texts that pioneered this approach—by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie, and Sarah Brouillette—as well as emerging scholarship that follows the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired work examines the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382967
SKU
V9781781382967
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About Rapael Dalleo
Raphael Dalleo is Associate Professor of English at Bucknell University.
Reviews for Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)
Reviews 'Engaging and insightful, this is a valuable contribution to the continuing debate around the future of postcolonial studies, and indeed the debates around its past.' Professor Michael Kelly OBE, University of Southampton 'Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies is a credit to Liverpool University Press and to their increasingly world-leading series Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines and Francophone Postcolonial Studies. ... Read more