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Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon / John Thieme.
Van Pelt Library PR9080.5 .T48 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thieme, John.
- Series:
- Literature, culture, and identity
- Literature, culture and identity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- English literature--Appreciation--Commonwealth countries.
- English literature.
- English literature--Appreciation.
- Commonwealth countries.
- Commonwealth literature (English)--English influences.
- Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.
- Postcolonialism.
- Commonwealth countries--In literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Canon (Literature).
- Intertextuality.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Summary:
- Thieme's study focuses both on responses to texts that have frequently been associated with the colonial project or the construction of 'race' (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello) and texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is slightly less overt (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights).
- The post-colonial con-texts examined are located within their particular social and cultural backgrounds with emphasis on the different forms their responses to their pre-texts take and the extent to which they create their own discursive space.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: parents, bastards and orphans 1
- 2 Conrad's 'hopeless' binaries: Heart of Darkness and postcolonial interior journeys 15
- 3 'On England's Desert Island cast away': protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays 53
- 4 Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes 72
- 5 Turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs 102
- 6 Ecountering other selves: re-staging The Tempest 127
- 7 Removing the black-face: a different 'Othello music' 155
- 8 Conclusion and postscript: narrative agency in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826454658
- 0826454666
- OCLC:
- 46384094
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