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The institutionalization of a literary curriculum was part of the ideological enterprise of British rule in the colony. The Amateur considers a phenomenon at striking odds with this imperial enterprise to create a certain kind of professional subject: namely, the trajectory and oeuvre of a range of postcolonial thinkers and writers whose provocative appeal derive from their positions as amateurs and autodidacts. Saikat Majumdar examines a va...

The institutionalization of a literary curriculum was part of the ideological enterprise of British rule in the colony. The Amateur considers a phenomenon at striking odds with this imperial enterprise to create a certain kind of professional subject: namely, the trajectory and oeuvre of a range of postcolonial thinkers and writers whose provocative appeal derive from their positions as amateurs and autodidacts. Saikat Majumdar examines a va...

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Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the university? The Critic as Amateur brings leading and emerging scholars together to explore the role of amateurism in literary studies. While untrained reading has always been central to arenas beyond the academy - book clubs, libraries, used boo...

Prose of the World' explores the global life of the banality of Empire. From late-colonial modernism to the present day, he looks at writers from all over the world to expose the everyday life of those abroad.

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