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Chapter 18 - Postcolonial Hungers

from Part III - Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2018

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Deepika Bahri
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Gitanjali G. Shahani
Gitanjali G. Shahani
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San Francisco State University
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Summary

This chapter explores the hunger narrative as a species of postcolonial literary and political enjambment, an intertextual phenomenon typified by different writers taking up a temporally discontinuous but thematically connected screed on postcolonial hungers.
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Food and Literature , pp. 335 - 352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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