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The Genre of Postcoloniality

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

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This essay sets out to explore what happens to concepts of genre and postcoloniality when they are considered contiguously. The history of generic distinctions in literary form bears renewed scrutiny alongside the emergence of postcoloniality as an identity. Indeed, the latter presents specific problems for our understanding of the former. By reading several examples of genre critique (including Derrida and Bakhtin) alongside what is held to constitute postcoloniality, I attempt to provide a polemical investigation of what grounds genre, and how the grounds of genre shift historically.

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