How Long to Read Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique

How Long Does it Take to Read Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique by Dr Katharine Burkitt

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Description

Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that these works disrupt and undermine the traditions of particular forms and genres, and most notably the expectations attached to the prose novel, poetry, and epic. This subversion of form, Burkitt argues, is an important aspect of the texts' postcoloniality as they locate themselves critically in relation to literary convention, and they are all concerned with matters of social, racial, and national identities in a world where these categories are inherently complicated. In addition, the awareness of epic tradition in these texts unites them as 'post-epics', in that as they reuse the myths and motifs of a variety of epics, they question the status of the form, demonstrate it to be inherently malleable, and regenerate its stories for the contemporary world. As she examines the ways in which postcolonial texts rewrite the traditions of classical epics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Burkitt ties close textual analysis to a critical intervention in the politics of form.

How long is Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique?

Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique by Dr Katharine Burkitt is 193 pages long, and a total of 48,829 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique aloud.

What Reading Level is Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique?

Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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