THE GROUND BENEATH ONE’S FEET AND THE SPAN OF THE POSTCOLONIAL

Anjali Nerlekar

doi:10.4324/9781003190233-20

THE GROUND BENEATH ONE’S FEET AND THE SPAN OF THE POSTCOLONIAL

Anjali Nerlekar

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This chapter questions the efficacy of terms like the “postcolonial” to cover the complex negotiations that take place in the here and now of reading a literary text. Taking representative readings of poems from the post-1990s navadottari Marathi poets from Bombay, the chapter asks for a bracketing of the concerns of the postcolonial and instead to heed the local conversations that make up the immediate foundation of the literary work. Instead of tethering the writing to a conceptual idea of the negative that such a term implies, the chapter argues for a literary reading that starts with the conviction of abundance (as Anjali Arondekar suggests) or the eventfulness of the present in the text, as Lauren Berlant proposes.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	231-246
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040097175
ISBN (Print)	9781032040103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190233-20
State	Published - Jan 1 2024
Externally published	Yes

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