| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages .) |
| Series |
Cultural studies ; volume 43 |
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Cultural studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 43
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| Contents |
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 |
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A Way in the WorldUncertain History; Rewriting History; Diasporic Identification; Conclusion; Works Cited; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Works in Chinese |
| Summary |
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 controversial concept. The old notion of identity as a prescribed and self-sufficient entity is now replaced by identity as a plural, floating and becoming process. Min Zhou shows how postcolonial literature, among other artistic forms, is one of the most representative reflections of this floating identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 fast |
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Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 gnd |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Exiles in literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Exiles in literature
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Identität Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839428542 |
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3839428548 |
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383762854X |
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9783837628548 |
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