The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501399862ISBN-10:1501399861UPC:9781501399862Book Category:Literary Criticism, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Semiotics & TheorySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC2M647K8Q
The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony
Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts?
The Amateur reads patterns of autodidactism and intellectual self-formation under systems of colonial education that are variously...
The Amateur reads patterns of autodidactism and intellectual self-formation under systems of colonial education that are variously...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501399862ISBN-10:1501399861UPC:9781501399862Book Category:Literary Criticism, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Semiotics & TheorySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC2M647K8Q
Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. He is the author of a monograph, Prose of the World (2013) and five novels, including The Firebird/Play House (2015/2017), and The Remains of the Body (2024); and the co-editor of The Critic as Amateur (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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