| Description |
304 pages : maps ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"An OPUS book"--Half t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| Contents |
Imperialism and textuality -- Colonialist concerns -- The stirrings of New Nationalism -- Metropolitans and mimics -- Independence -- Postcolonialism and beyond. |
| Summary |
Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee - postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. In this book, Elleke Boehmer looks challengingly at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing in the Empire in the Victorian period. Throughout this literature key themes and images - journeying, loss, the search for community, the arrival of the stranger - are expanded and redefined. Boehmer discusses these with reference to a broad range of texts, from Trollope, Kipling, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield, to authors as recent as Ben Okri and Michael Ondaatje, and the Aboriginal Australians Sally Morgan and Mudrooroo. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English) |
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English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Developing countries. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Intellectual life.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. |
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Commonwealth countries. |
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Culture conflict in literature.
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Culture conflict in literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
Commonwealth countries |
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English literature |
| Cover Title |
Colonial & postcolonial literature |
| ISBN |
0192892320 paperback |
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9780192892324 paperback |
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