How Long to Read Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization by Sharae Deckard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical tropes of paradise across the "long modernity" of the capitalist world-system, Deckard reads literature from postcolonial nations in context with colonial discourse in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a topos motivating European exploration and colonization, shifts into an ideological myth justifying imperial exploitation, and finally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary writers to critique neocolonial representations and conditions in the age of globalization. Combining a range of critical perspectives—cultural materialist, ecocritical, and postcolonial—the volume opens up a deeper understanding of the relation between paradise discourse and the destructive dynamics of plantation, tourism, and global capital. Deckard uncovers literature from East Africa and South Asia which has been previously overlooked in mainstream postcolonial criticism, and gestures to how the utopian dimensions of the paradise myth might be reclaimed to promote cultural resistance.

How long is Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization?

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization by Sharae Deckard is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization aloud.

What Reading Level is Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization?

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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