Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel : Literatures of Precarity.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Genre and Texts -- Pretexts, Contexts, Subtexts -- The Picaresque, Postcoloniality, and Neoliberalism -- Precarity, Contingency, and Postcolonial Modernism -- Chapter 2 Biography -- Introduction -- Picaresque and Bildungsroman -- The Postcolonial Bildungsroman -- Picaresque Atopy -- Postcolonial Precarity and Picaresque Entrepreneurism -- Human Rights and the World-Literary Market -- Conclusion: Precarium -- Chapter 3 Style -- Introduction -- Episodic Lives -- Episodic Plots -- Historiographic Metafiction -- Postcolonial Allegory and Liberal Allegoresis -- Conclusion: The Enigma of the Picaresque -- Chapter 4 Identity -- Introduction -- The Mimic Man -- Expressions and Impressions -- The Mimic Men -- Mimicking Conversion -- Conclusion: Disabling Flexibility -- Chapter 5 Narration -- Introduction -- Aetiology Without a Cause -- Adjusting (to) Fundamentalism -- Implied and Implicated Readers -- Framing Unreliability -- How to Get Filthy Rich -- Conclusion: Deplotting Violation -- Chapter 6 Abjection -- Introduction -- Abjection and the (Postcolonial) Picaresque -- Abjection and Visibility -- Politics of Humanitarianism -- Pseudo-Romances, Picaresque Novels, and the Plots of Humanitarianism -- Conclusion: Digesting Precarity -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Index.

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