British Colonial Realism in Africa : Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains.

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical strugg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shapple Spillman, Deborah Shapple
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
British > Africa > Intellectual life.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Britanniques > Afrique > Vie intellectuelle.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Literature.
British > Intellectual life
Colonies in literature
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature
Literature
Realism in literature
Africa > In literature.
Afrique > Dans la littérature.
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9780230378018
0230378013

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