Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thieme, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
Colección:Literature, culture, and identity.
Temas:
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > Appreciation > Commonwealth countries.
Commonwealth literature (English) > English influences.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Decolonization in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Intertextuality.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Influence anglaise.
Postcolonialisme > Pays du Commonwealth.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
Intertextualité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature > Appreciation.
Literature.
Postcolonialism.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Commonwealth countries > In literature.
Pays du Commonwealth > Dans la littérature.
Commonwealth countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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 Brontes
  • 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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