What is a classic? : postcolonial rewriting and invention of the canon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mukherjee, Ankhi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Series:	Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. English literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Canon (Literature) Criticism.

Table of Contents:

"What is a classic?" : international literary criticism and the classic question
What is a novel? : Conrad, Said, Naipaul
"Best of the world's classics" : Derek Walcott between classics and the classic
"Pip was my story" : rereading, counterreading, and nonreading
"Yes, sir, I was the one who got away" : postcolonial emergence and the vernacular canon
Hamarashakespeare.com : Shakespeare in India
Postscript : the why of the what.