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Zones of Instability
Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation
In Zones of Instability, Imre Szeman examines the complex relationship between literature and politics by exploring the production of nationalist literature in the former British empire. Taking as his case studies the regions of the British Caribbean, Nigeria, and Canada, Szeman analyzes the work of authors for whom the idea of the"nation" and literature are inexorably entwined, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, and V.S. Naipaul. Szeman focuses on literature created in the two decades after World War II, decades in which the future prospects for many colonies went from extreme political optimism to extreme political disappointment. He finds that the "nation" can be read as that space in which literature is thought to be able to conjoin two things that history has separated—the writer and the people.
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Reviews
"Offers an interesting and valuable argument."—Chelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto Quarterly
"Szeman's framework defamiliarizes the platitudes and pieties we associate with the invocation of such names as Naipaul, James, and Achebe. This is a book that will stir debate in the best sense."—Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York
"Tightly written, boldly argued, and politically sophisticated, this is a major intervention in the study of postcolonial literature and globalization. Szeman retools the problem of the nation as it is usually understood in the study of national literatures, ripping out its Romantic 'soul' and replacing that with the much more concrete and workable concept of the zone. It's an exciting project with enormous consequences, and it should be widely read."—Caren Irr, Brandeis University
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Other Titles by Imre Szeman
Energy Humanities
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, second edition
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Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
Dorian Unbound
The Academic Avant-Garde
Other Titles in Literary theory
Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
A Centaur in London
Dorian Unbound