Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)

Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces.

• | Author: Bede Scott
• | Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1786941708
• | ISBN-13: 9781786941701