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Imagination and the contemporary novel /

"Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre; Brink, J....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Su, John J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: globalization, imagination and the novel
  • Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the state of emergency
  • The pastoral and the postmodern
  • Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain
  • Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim
  • Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies.