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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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List of illustrations and appendices; contributors; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; lionel fogarty and a noteon the indigenous; the gam:"a particular placein the transnational"; solidarity in difference:unveiling the coloniality of powerin ntozake shange's sociopoetics; the hunger:the power and politicsof a (post)colonial cannibal; part ii; "we may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us"; the chronometric noseand the chronotopic novelmidnight's children; literary topoi of organisedhallucinations in irvine welsh'strainspotting; journey beyond borders. |
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Part iiirespite on the brink; sam selvon's lonely londonand diasporic caribbean identityin literature; the indian gothic; lafcadio hearn and george gould'sphilosophy of spectacles; bibliography; index. |
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Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideration of multicultural infusions, and at times profusions, of colonial migrations. Arguments on defining Englishness and the insinuations of a 'fixed centre' for the marginalised are now considered on a global scale as postmodernity defies imperial homogeneity. Although postcolonial studies have largely been Anglocentric and Western in focus, developme ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Decolonization in literature -- Congresses.
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Decolonization in literature. |
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Immigrants in literature -- Congresses.
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Immigrants in literature. |
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Developing countries -- Literatures -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Developing countries. |
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Literatures.
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Literature, Modern -- history & criticism. |
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Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Brooks, David, 1953-
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Print version: Nicéphore, Anastasia. Diasporic Identities and Empire : Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443851657 |
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9781443855266 |
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144385526X |
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9781443851657 (hardback) |
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1443851655 (hardback) |
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