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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thieme, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002.
Series:Literature, culture, and identity.
Subjects:
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.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Decolonization in literature
English literature > Appreciation
Intertextuality
Literature
Postcolonialism
Commonwealth countries > In literature.
Pays du Commonwealth > Dans la littérature.
Commonwealth countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; 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 Brontës; 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 TaleBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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