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The transcription of identities : a study of V.S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings /
Based on a study of V.S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects' special route of identification. This enables the readers to see how in our increasingly diverse and fragmented post-modern world, identity is a vibrant, complex, and highly c...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
[2015]
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| Collection: | Cultural studies (Transcript (Firm)) ;
Bd. 43. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover The Transcription of Identities; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; V.S. Naipaul: A Controversial Position; Problematizing Identity; Chapter One An Exile at Home; A House for Mr. Biswas; A Life Out of Place; Houses as Shifting Signifiers; A Colonial's Aporia; Chapter Two An Exile between Islands; The Mimic Men; Lost in the Metropolis; Shipwrecked at Home; Conflicting Identities; Chapter Three An Enigmatic Identity; The Enigma of Arrival; Articulation of Identity; Deconstructing Englishness; Toward a Hybrid Identity; Chapter Four The Historical Perspective.
- A Way in the WorldUncertain History; Rewriting History; Diasporic Identification; Conclusion; Works Cited; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Works in Chinese.