Benwell, Bethan

Postcolonial audiences : readers, viewers and reception - New York Routledge 2012. - xvi, 264 pages 24 cm. - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 37. .

Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective

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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism. English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism. Postcolonialism -- English-speaking countries.

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