Beschreibung:
This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott's Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's South Asi
Acknowledgements. Introduction: From Classical to Postcolonial Epic 1. Rallying the Tropes: The Language of Violence and the Violence of Language 2. 'History in the Future Tense': Genealogy as Prophecy 3. 'The Artifice of Eternity': Ekphrasis as 'An-other' Epic 4. Conclusion: Resistant Nostalgia. Bibliography. Index