Textual traffic : colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text
"In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre."
Print Book, English, ©2001
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791449912, 9780791449929, 0791449912, 0791449920
44632989
Introduction: textual economics, the modern, and the postmodern
Travel narratives and Gulliver's travels
Into darkness and out of it
Wright and wrong in a land of pathos
V.S. Naipaul, modernity, and postcolonial excrement