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100	1		_aElze, Jens.
245	1	0	_aPostcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel : _bLiteratures of Precarity.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing AG, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017.
300			_a1 online resource (230 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aLiterature, Modern-20th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aElze, Jens _tPostcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel _dCham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2017 _z9783319519371
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5061649 _zClick to View
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