Eli Park Sorensen is an assistant professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Dr. Sorensen’s publications include Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published in journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Narrative Theory, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, Modern Drama, Research in African Literatures, Explicator, Partial Answers, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature.

• Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the End of History Chapter 1: Nation, Nationalism, and the Novel Form Chapter 2: The Historico-Political Discourse Chapter 3: The Political Significance of Literary Realism Chapter 4: Postcolonial Realism Chapter 5: The Politics of Realism: Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey Conclusion Index

Eli Park Sorensen is an assistant professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Dr. Sorensen’s publications include Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published in journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Narrative Theory, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, Modern Drama, Research in African Literatures, Explicator, Partial Answers, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature.

• Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the End of History Chapter 1: Nation, Nationalism, and the Novel Form Chapter 2: The Historico-Political Discourse Chapter 3: The Political Significance of Literary Realism Chapter 4: Postcolonial Realism Chapter 5: The Politics of Realism: Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey Conclusion Index

Eli Park Sorensen is an assistant professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Dr. Sorensen’s publications include Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published in journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Narrative Theory, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Thought, Modern Drama, Research in African Literatures, Explicator, Partial Answers, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature.

• Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the End of History Chapter 1: Nation, Nationalism, and the Novel Form Chapter 2: The Historico-Political Discourse Chapter 3: The Political Significance of Literary Realism Chapter 4: Postcolonial Realism Chapter 5: The Politics of Realism: Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey Conclusion Index