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The postcolonial country in contemporary literature /

This book represents a shift in postcolonial literary criticism by bridging postcolonial studies in Britain with the wider postcolonial world through the concept of 'the postcolonial country', a term which collectively represents the English countryside and Britain as nation, but also rura...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loh, Lucienne, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Foreign fields that will be forever England
  • The politics of postimperial melancholia and rural heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn
  • Rural routes of empire, colonial nostalgia and the thatcher years: V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival
  • Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore
  • Towards a provincial cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York
  • A distinctly uncosmopolitan present: the postcolonial rural in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps
  • Historicising neocolonial globalisation and political revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A small place
  • Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.