An edition of Textual traffic (2001)

Textual traffic

colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text

by

Cover of: Textual traffic by Subramanian Shankar, Subramanian Shankar
Preview
Borrow Listen

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
November 13, 2023 | History
Edit
An edition of Textual traffic (2001)

Textual traffic

colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text

by

"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.".

"Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives - African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic - drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S.

Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
English
Pages
224

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects

History and criticism, English literature, American literature, Travelers' writings, American, Colonies in literature, Travelers' writings, English, Modernism (Literature), Travel writing, Postcolonialism, Travel in literature, History, Travelers' writings, history and criticism

Places

English-speaking countries

Times

20th century

Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Textual traffic
Textual traffic: colonialism, modernity, and the economy of the text
2001, State University of New York Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index.

Published in
Albany
Series
SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS366.T73 S53 2001, PS366.T73S53 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 224 p. ;
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6792898M
Internet Archive
textualtrafficco0000shan
ISBN 10
0791449912, 0791449920
LCCN
00058791
OCLC/WorldCat
44632989
Library Thing
3360956
Goodreads
3719948
2026465

Source records

Scriblio MARC record
Ithaca College Library MARC record
amazon.com record
Library of Congress MARC record
Internet Archive item record
Better World Books record
Better World Books record
Promise Item
marc_columbia MARC record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
November 13, 2023 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
December 9, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 26, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 26, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record