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The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature / by L. Loh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loh, L., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Fiction.
- World Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Foreign fields that will be forever England
- The politics of postimperial melancholia and rural heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn
- Rural routes of empire, colonial nostalgia and the thatcher years: V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival
- Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore
- Towards a provincial cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York
- A distinctly uncosmopolitan present: the postcolonial rural in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps
- Historicising neocolonial globalisation and political revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A small place
- Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349335145
- 1349335142
- 9781137314611
- 1137314613
- OCLC:
- 865543090
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