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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth : Studies in Literature and Culture.

Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This coll...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Rowland
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Postcolonial/Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference
  • 2 Proximities: From Asymptote to Zeugma
  • 3 Looking in from â€?â€?Beyondâ€?â€?: Commonwealth Studies in French Universities
  • 4 Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent
  • 5 Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Métissage in Breyten Breyten-bachâ€?s Return to Paradise
  • 6 Inheritance in Question: The Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction
  • 7 Natal Womenâ€?s Letters in the 1850s: Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and â€?â€? Second- Worldâ€?â€? Ambi/ valence8 Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcoboâ€?s And They Didn't Die
  • 9 Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age
  • 10 FAS and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women?
  • 11 Can Rohinton Mistryâ€?s Realism Rescue the Novel?
  • 12 Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame
  • 13 A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity