- Springer International Publishing
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 236 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319847832
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel¿s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide- ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for this book. What is especially
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