The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts /

"The Postcolonial Historical Novel" is the first systematic work to explore how the historical novel shapes understandings of the past in former colonies, and how it has been transformed by its appropriation in these settings. Focusing on contemporary writing from Africa and Australasia, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dalley, Hamish, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Temas:
Historical fiction > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Historical fiction
Postcolonialism in literature
Realism in literature
Englisch
Historischer Roman
Postcolonial literatures > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism
  • Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel
  • Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river
  • The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife
  • Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
  • Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun
  • Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night
  • Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish
  • Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.

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