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Postcolonial Con-Texts : Writing Back to the Canon.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2002.
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| Colección: | Literature, culture, and identity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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-colonial writing and the ''canon''. Thieme''s study provides a broad overview of such writing, focusing 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 imper. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441199997 1441199993 |