Telling the Other: The Question of Value in Modern and Postcolonial Writing

McGee, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0801427495 / ISBN 13: 9780801427497

Published by Cornell Univ Pr, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Telling the Other: The Question of Value in Modern and Postcolonial Writing
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801427495
• ISBN 13: 9780801427497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

"A stunning, superb exploration. In a series of challenging theoretical arguments and close readings, McGee demonstrates the various ways that literature and theory can get beyond the reigning meanings that normally constrain our interpretations of the world, the text, and the critic. Breathtaking in its scope, the discussion offers a vital resource for cultural criticism."
--Gregory S. Jay, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

In this provocative and illuminating book, Patrick McGee looks at the ways in which certain texts resist the dominant cultural assumptions that condition their writing and reception. Challenging received notions of aesthetic and social value, he offers readings of modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial works which suggest forms of relationship disruptive of social systems and institutional hierarchies.

About the Author

Patrick McGee is currently Emeritus Professor from Louisiana State University. His most recent work is a long poem, Comedy, Book 1: Archival Resurrections. He lives in Seattle.