Postcolonial Naturalism

Postcolonial Naturalism proposes an innovative periodizing schema for historicizing contemporary Anglophone fiction. Engaging and revising the materialist paradigm of the Warwick Research Collectives concept of world-literature, Fredric Jamesons mapping of modernitys cultural periods, and Christopher L. Hills positing of a transnational naturalism, Eric D. Smith theorizes postcolonial naturalism as a structurally determined cultural logic rather than as a literary technique or style. Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important intervention invites us to reconsider the living history of aesthetic naturalism as well as its social and political implications for the practice of world-literature in the aftermath of anticolonial resistance.