Overview
Offers the first comprehensive study not only of the postcolonial picaresque novel, but of the picaresque novel in any of its contemporary forms
Looks at key postcolonial novels by authors such as V.S. Naipul, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga and Mohsin Hamid
Examines fiction's representations of the consequences of neoliberal economics
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Book Title: Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel
Book Subtitle: Literatures of Precarity
Authors: Jens Elze
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51938-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51937-1Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84783-2Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51938-8Published: 28 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 225
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature