Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon / John Thieme.

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.

Commonwealth literature (English)--English influences.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization in literature.

Canon (Literature).

Intertextuality.

Commonwealth countries--In literature.

Commonwealth countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colon

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: parents, bastards and orphans; 2 Conrad's 'hopeless' binaries: Heart of Darkness and postcolonial interior journeys; 3 'On England's Desert Island cast away': protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays; 4 Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontës; 5 Turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs; 6 Encountering other selves: re-staging The Tempest; 7 Removing the black-face: a different 'Othello music'; 8 Conclusion and postscript: narrative agency in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-195) and index.

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ISBN:

9786611298333

9781281298331

1281298336

9781847143112

1847143113

OCLC:

290573707