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5 novembre 2019
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Delphine Munos, « Sneharika Roy. The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.411
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By calling for a reassessment of the epic’s role in postcolonial literatures and theory, The Postcolonial Epic challenges postcolonial scholarship’s traditional overemphasis on the novel genre and offers a fascinating contribution to current discussions highlighting the relevance of generic issues in the literatures of the Global South. In her book, Sneharika Roy traces new affiliations between Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), Derek Walcott’s book-length poem Omeros (1990), and Amitav Gosh...