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This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for this book. What is especially significant in comparison to other forms of postcolonial (post)modernism is that the picaresque does not offer a general critique of a project of modernity, but through its persistent precarity points to the paradoxical logics of capitalism, which are especially nuanced under the conditions of neo-imperialism and neoliberalism. The book features texts by established postcolonial authors such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul, but especially focuses on the more recent proliferation of the genre in works by Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid and Indra Sinha. .

Picaresque literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature   . --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.

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This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel's traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for this book. What is especially significant in comparison to other forms of postcolonial (post)modernism is that the picaresque does not offer a general critique of a project of modernity, but through its persistent precarity points to the paradoxical logics of capitalism, which are especially nuanced under the conditions of neo-imperialism and neoliberalism. The book features texts by established postcolonial authors such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul, but especially focuses on the more recent proliferation of the genre in works by Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid and Indra Sinha.

Picaresque literature --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.

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Im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert wurde kaum ein kulturwissenschaftliches Thema weitreichender untersucht als die Gabe. Dieser Band versucht in interdisziplinärer Perspektive, sich dem Gegenteil der Gabe zuzuwenden: dem Diebstahl. Zu allen Zeiten waren Diebe nicht nur eine Bedrohung für das Eigentum von Menschen, Staaten und Göttern, sondern sie tauchen auch immer wieder als Kulturgründer und als schelmische Rebellen auf. Um den Diebstahl zu verstehen, müssen unterschiedliche Disziplinen gehört werden. Die Beiträge aus diesem Band sind daher sowohl international wie auch interdisziplinär vielfältig angelegt.

Gewaltlosigkeit --- Eigentum --- Ökonomie --- Verbrechen --- Prekarität --- Philosophie --- Mythos --- Kulturgeschichte

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