Abstract
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.
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Publication Date
1-2008
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
English, Department of
College
College of Liberal Arts
Recommended Citation
Ray, Amit and Evan Selinger. "Jagannath's Saligram: On Bruno Latour and Literary Critique After Postcoloniality." Postmodern Culture, vol. 18 no. 2, 2008. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pmc.0.0012.
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RIT – Main Campus
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