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Introduction: Postcolonial Reading Publics

Abstract:
In this introduction to the special issue, “Postcolonial Reading Publics,” Mukherjee charts the history of reception of two texts, one a Bengali novel published in British India, the other a Shakespeare adaptation staged in twenty-first-century Kolkata, to examine the fortuitous ways in which reading publics baffle or exceed authorial intention and the given text’s addressable objects. Offering summaries of and continuities among the four essays that constitute the volume, the introduction ends with an analysis of the salience of this discursive context for postcolonial writing, theory, and critique in a world literary frame.
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10.1017/pli.2016.41

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
Wadham College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-4424-7860


Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Journal:
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry More from this journal
Volume:
4
Issue:
1
Pages:
1-10
Publication date:
2017-02-15
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EISSN:
2052-2622
ISSN:
2052-2614


Language:
English
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uuid:00b2f622-59fc-457c-bde5-e4be0c6e458e
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pubs:828360
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828360
Deposit date:
2019-04-11

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