Table of Contents

Introduction: Poetic Inheritance, Postcolonial Custodianship 1. Custodian of the Unspeakable: Reading Anita Desai 2. Guarding the Secret: Allegory and Realism in Imaginary Maps 3. The Curators of the Real: Arundhati Roy's Custodianship 4. Woven into a Song: Cultural Relays in The London Jungle Book Conclusion: "Custodying" the Future

About the Author

Filippo Menozzi is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK, where he teaches courses in Romanticism and Critical Theory, and Literatures of the Twentieth Century. His research interests are postcolonial literature and theory, migration studies, and critical theory.

Reviews

"An absorbing and thoughtful study of the ethics of postcolonial intellectualism, superbly researched and subtly argued." – Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick, UK