What Is a Classic?

Ankhi Mukherjee

Original title: What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Cultural Memory in the Present)

earliest edition we have, 2013 Stanford University Press, 2013 hardcover 296 pages

"What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-cal...

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What Is a Classic? paperback · 2014 · Stanford University Press · 296 pages · 9780804795258
What Is a Classic? hardcover · 2013 · Stanford University Press · 296 pages · 9780804785211
What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Cultural Memory in the Present) edition · 2013 · Stanford University Press · 298 pages · 9780804788380

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