Jed Esty
Biographic Data
| ID | 957739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jed Esty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jed |
| FAMILY NAME | Esty |
| SIGNATURE | ESTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Late Jameson
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature
For decades, postcolonial studies has defined itself in the agon between political drives and institutional accommodations.It is a recurring challenge to pin academic work to the anticolonial struggle.From the start, and up to the moment, postcolonial scholars have wanted to reconcile subtle inquiry into the history of culture/discourse with hard-edged programs of materialist thought and activist struggle.They have wanted to define "anticoloniali…
Proxy War and Sequel Logic
Research Article| August 01 2023 Proxy War and Sequel Logic: Anglophone Genres in Interimperial Asia Jed Esty Jed Esty JED ESTY is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Shrinking Island (2004), Unseasonable Youth (2012), and The Future of Decline (2022); he is currently working on a new project entitled Cold War Victorians: The Genre System of the Angloworld. [email protected] Search f…
The Colonial Bildungsroman: The Story of an African Farm and the Ghost of Goethe
This essay examines the plot structure, characterization, and figurative language of Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, suggesting that the novel's assimilation of an uneven and markedly colonial temporality unsettles the inherited formal dictates of the Goethean bildungsroman. Like other late-Victorian and modernist works set in the colonial contact zone and fixated on youthful protagonists who do not or cannot mature (including wor…
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
The Colonial Bildungsroman: The Story of an African Farm and the Ghost of Goethe
This essay examines the plot structure, characterization, and figurative language of Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, suggesting that the novel's assimilation of an uneven and markedly colonial temporality unsettles the inherited formal dictates of the Goethean bildungsroman. Like other late-Victorian and modernist works set in the colonial contact zone and fixated on youthful protagonists who do not or cannot mature (including wor…
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
The Colonial Bildungsroman: The Story of an African Farm and the Ghost of Goethe
This essay examines the plot structure, characterization, and figurative language of Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, suggesting that the novel's assimilation of an uneven and markedly colonial temporality unsettles the inherited formal dictates of the Goethean bildungsroman. Like other late-Victorian and modernist works set in the colonial contact zone and fixated on youthful protagonists who do not or cannot mature (including wor…
Proxy War and Sequel Logic
Research Article| August 01 2023 Proxy War and Sequel Logic: Anglophone Genres in Interimperial Asia Jed Esty Jed Esty JED ESTY is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Shrinking Island (2004), Unseasonable Youth (2012), and The Future of Decline (2022); he is currently working on a new project entitled Cold War Victorians: The Genre System of the Angloworld. [email protected] Search f…
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature
For decades, postcolonial studies has defined itself in the agon between political drives and institutional accommodations.It is a recurring challenge to pin academic work to the anticolonial struggle.From the start, and up to the moment, postcolonial scholars have wanted to reconcile subtle inquiry into the history of culture/discourse with hard-edged programs of materialist thought and activist struggle.They have wanted to define "anticoloniali…
Late Jameson
History (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Congresses (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Globalization (2 works) · History (2 works) · Joseph Conrad and Literature (2 works)