Jagannath's Saligram

On Bruno Latour and Literary Critique After Postcoloniality

Bibliographic Data

ID5850104
AuthorsAmit Ray (0009-0009-2156-161X), Evan Selinger (0000-0002-7298-9204)
Year2008
Volume18
Issue2
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePostmodern Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/pmc.0.0012
OpenAlexW2035857608
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

Bruno Latour has turned to Indian vernacular fiction to illustrate the limits of ideology critique. In examining the method of literary analysis that underlies his appropriation of postcolonial history and culture, we appeal to Edward Said's notion of "traveling theory" in order to discuss critically the aesthetic as well as political stakes of using the technology of the modern novel for the allegorical purposes that Latour has in mind. We argue that Latourian analysis fails to uphold its own rigorous aspirations when it reduces complex literary and cultural representation to universal allegory

Allegory · Appropriation · Representation · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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