Description |
xii, 202 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction. The ballistic bard: intertextuality and postcolonial fiction -- 2. I walked with a zombie: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea -- 3. Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust -- 4. Babytalk: Anita Desai, Baumgartner's Bombay -- 5. Postcolonial Gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case -- 6. Empire as a dirty story: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe -- 7. He neo-Tarzan, she Jane?: Buchi Emecheta, The Rape of Shavi -- 8. Don't cry for me Argentina - Jane Eyre as Evita Peron: V. S. Naipaul, Guerrillas -- 9. The madwoman in the motel: Bharati Mukherjee, 'Jasmine' and Jasmine -- 10. Nadine Gordimer and the naked southern ape: 'Something Out There' -- 11. Conclusion |
Summary |
In her major new study of postcolonial fiction, Judie Newman demonstrates the subversive nature of that fiction, in its refusal to be contained within purely 'literary' bounds, or even within the bounds of discourse. In the postcolonial arena, Jane Eyre walks with the zombie of horror film, Shaw rubs shoulders with the heirs of Tarzan, killer apes roam the pages of Nadine Gordimer, and Imperial Gothic confronts the popular fascination with the serial killer |
Analysis |
Colonies |
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English fiction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein |
Subject |
Colonies in literature.
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Developing countries -- History and criticism.
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Decolonization in literature.
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English fiction -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Intertextuality.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.
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SUBJECT |
Commonwealth countries -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120840
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LC no. |
95016018 |
ISBN |
0340539143 |
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0340539151 |
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