2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Postcolonialism, Postnationalism, and the Rise of the Novel
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The Rise of the Novel
Postcolonial criticism’s interest in historical literature endeavours to track its complicity in imperial ideology, and the attention postcolonialists have given to the rise of the novel is exemplary in this regard. In addition, critics have addressed the emergent novel’s role in propagating both racial and national ideology. The Englishness of the novel, a construction I traced in Chapters 1 and 2, has been challenged by critics who locate the rise of the novel in international cultural exchange.