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The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts / by Hamish Dalley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dalley, Hamish, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical fiction--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Contents:
- The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism
- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel
- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river
- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife
- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun
- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night
- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish
- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137450081
- 1137450088
- OCLC:
- 881498570
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