TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035102086
TI  - Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
T2  - Texts of Contemporary Excess
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0208-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052323
N2  - Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women’s/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of novelists such as Githa Hariharan, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Coover and Ben Okri, selected to reveal the range and intensity of the grotesque in contemporary fiction through their de/constructions of gender and postcolonial politics.  Complementary fields with the grotesque are considered through theorisations of Mary Russo, Julia Kristeva, Martha Reineke, René Girard and other intellectuals. Various literary formulations/frameworks are discussed to supplement views presented in the canonical texts of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser: post-colonial feminine identity/alterity/exoticism; postcolonial national identity; female grotesqueness and animal metamorphosis; abjectification; the principle of sacrificial economy; mythologisations of feminine martyrdom and motherhood; religious and political tyranny associated with imperialism and re-appropriation of carnivalesque-grotesque types in postmodernity.
KW  - Postcolonial literature and criticism, Comparative Literature, Latin American and North American Literatures
LA  - English
ER  -