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1 “Minor” Genres in Postcolonial Literatures : New Webs of Meaning Delphine Munos , Bénédicte Ledent , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 54 no. 1 2017; (p. 1-5)

'It is now widely acknowledged that the field of postcolonial studies has been by and large averse to exploring aesthetic matters save for discussions foregrounding postmodern literary features in postcolonial texts – what Eli Park Sorensen  has famously dismissed as the “modernist ethos” of postcolonial scholarship. While this lack of engagement with aesthetic matters might have much to do with postcolonial studies’ subordination of form to political/historical questions, it also manifests itself through a generalized neglect of generic issues. Specifically, much work in postcolonial literary studies has systematically promoted a single body of cultural products only, namely the novel. Problematically constructing this genre as a “dominant” one in postcolonial literatures, this critical trend hardly does justice to the multiplicity of the field. Moreover, it misrepresents certain literary traditions within which the novel occupies a less central position (see Herbillon in this issue about the centrality of the short story in the Australian literary tradition). Also, postcolonial scholarship’s overemphasis on the novel-as-national-narrative has contributed to marginalizing literary traditions and works by writers who delink their novels from issues of modernity and nation formation (see, for instance, Sarah Brouillette’s 2007 discussion of the reasons behind the neglect of Zulfikar Ghose’s work by postcolonial critics). With regard to a Malaysian context, Philip Holden  remarks that the overabundance of postcolonial scholarship devoted to the novel genre obscures the fact that, in “late colonial and post-independence periods”, the short story is “often a more common means of literary expression” (442). In the Caribbean, the earlier critical consensus that the novel developed in conjunction with nationalist movements and that it has been a dominant genre in the region has been problematized by critics such as Alison Donnell  and Evelyn O’Callaghan who, by broadening the terrain of analysis to pre-1940s Caribbean writings, have highlighted the generic diversity of that corpus – and, what is more, have emphasized the “global” dimension of the early Caribbean novel. (Introduction)

1 A Memory Trip : Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical Gordon Collier , Marc Delrez , Anne Fuchs , Bénédicte Ledent , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Engaging with Literature of Commitment : The Worldly Scholar (Volume 2) 2012; (p. xiii-xxx)
1 y separately published work icon Engaging with Literature of Commitment : The Worldly Scholar (Volume 2) Gordon Collier (editor), Marc Delrez (editor), Anne Fuchs (editor), Bénédicte Ledent (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2012 Z1868307 2012 anthology criticism poetry
1 y separately published work icon Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [2] Geoffrey V. Davis (editor), Bénédicte Ledent (editor), Peter H. Marsden (editor), Marc Delrez (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2005 Z1239308 2005 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [1] Geoffrey V. Davis (editor), Bénédicte Ledent (editor), Peter H. Marsden (editor), Marc Delrez (editor), Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2004 Z1186225 2004 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon The Contact and the Culmination : Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek Marc Delrez (editor), Bénédicte Ledent (editor), Liege : University of Liege , 1997 Z937616 1997 anthology criticism non-fiction extract poetry
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