Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Title Colonial and postcolonial literature : migrant metaphors / Elleke Boehmer
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  809.99171241 B6713/C  AVAILABLE
 MELB  809.99171241 B6713/C  AVAILABLE
Description 304 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Series An OPUS book
Contents 1. Imperialism and Textuality -- 2. Colonialist Concerns -- 3. The Stirrings of New Nationalism -- 4. Metropolitans and Mimics -- 5. Independence -- 6. Postcolonialism and Beyond
Summary Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee - postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. In this book, Elleke Boehmer looks challengingly at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing in the Empire in the Victorian period. Throughout this literature key themes and images - journeying, loss, the search for community, the arrival of the stranger - are expanded and redefined. Boehmer discusses these with reference to a broad range of texts, from Trollope, Kipling, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield, to authors as recent as Ben Okri and Michael Ondaatje, and the Aboriginal Australians Sally Morgan and Mudrooroo
Analysis Commonwealth countries
English literature
Australia overseas comparisons
Colonialism
Commonwealth of Nations
Cultural conflict
Intellectual life
Literature
Notes "An OPUS book"--Half t.p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index
SUBJECT English literature http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84743003 -- Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005254 -- History and criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187
Subject Colonies in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Culture conflict in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literfture
English literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- Colonies.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.
Postcolonialism.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2018001775
LC no. 94038661
ISBN 0192892320 (paperback)
Other Titles Colonial & postcolonial literature
Colonial & postcolonial literature